[48240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Sat May 25 02:57:10 2002
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 20:56:21 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Jake Baillie <jake@priva.com>
Cc: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020523174715.03e848b0@mail.priva.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Speaking of which: I have been looking for a reasonable priced hardware
ramdisk. The ones I've seen (albeit expensive) are essentially a brick
with DIMMs in them, and have either a IDE or SCSI interface. Some have a
battery to back them up for a few hours.
Anyone got some pointers?
On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jake Baillie wrote:
>
>
> Let me elaborate. I thought Steve was concerned about the limited
> writablity of flash.
>
> My thought was to build something like a Linux router, you'd have to load
> the OS into a RAMdisk (or something similar), and only write to flash when
> the config changed. Which means you'd need some sort of singular
> configuration file.
>
> But I was wrong. :) He meant "read-only"
>
> *back to lurk mode*
>
> -- jb
>
> At 02:49 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> >And making it *write-only* as the original poster asked, would fix things
> >how?
>
>
>
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