[268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: PCs as routers...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Heiliger)
Tue Aug 15 17:14:49 1995
From: "Jonathan Heiliger" <loco@MFSDatanet.COM>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:02:13 -0700
In-Reply-To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
"Re: CIDR FAQ" (Aug 15, 4:22pm)
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>, Dave Siegel <dsiegel@net99.net>
Cc: Jon Zeeff <jon@branch.com>, peter@demon.net, sob@academ.com,
bwatson@mci.net, jerry@fc.net, inet-access@earth.com,
HANK@taunivm.tau.ac.il, cidrd@iepg.org, nanog@merit.edu,
local-ir@ripe.net, iap@vma.cc.nd.edu
On Aug 15, 4:22pm, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> Ok, yes you are correct you can't drop a DS3 into the back of a PC, but
> why not use a 4500 or 7000 for your ds3's and then use a PC to do the
> major BGP4? On a 4500 I only can put in 32 megs or ram. Yes gated will
> use more ram for the same number of routes, but I can put 128 meg or more
> in a PC.
>-- End of excerpt from Nathan Stratton
I don't know if others have mentioned it... but I seem to recall that DEC was
developing a PCI based HSSI interface for PCs. It also recently surfaced on
one of the zillions of mailing lists.
Granted you'd still need a DL 3100 or Larse Access-T45 to do your DS3 <-> HSSI
stuff though.
--
Jonathan Heiliger oOo Technical Specialist
Email: loco@MFSDatanet.COM ooo MFS Datanet, Inc.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Telephone: [408].975.2259 oOo NCC: [800].637.4872
