[27154] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Wed Feb 9 18:53:28 2000
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:50:24 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>
Cc: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>,
Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>,
Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> When I asked a couple dialup wholesalers this question point blank last
> year, the answer was no - because their routers/term servers didn't have
> enough CPU to do filtering.
It certainly makes you wonder what exactly it is you're paying for when
shelling out tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for term
servers. One would think CPU power would at least get some attention.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
