[11739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New Equipment - Anybody try'em?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wb8foz)
Sun Aug 10 11:41:12 1997
From: wb8foz <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: djardine@hotmail.com (Douglas Jardine)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 07:31:59 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19970810140824.24406.qmail@hotmail.com> from "Douglas Jardine" at Aug 10, 97 07:08:23 am
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Douglas Jardine sez:
> Also is anybody out there trying to build backbones out of all the
> new Gigabit ethernet gear being announced? At first glance, it seems
> to me that these layer 2/3 products are capable of Interior routing,
> besides switching at mosnstrous speed.
FWIW, Don Becker has written Linux drivers for the Packet Engines card.
See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html for
code. He spoke of it briefly at a LUG meeting. Operative words were
"WOW" I think.
--
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
