[5444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Fri Oct 18 21:39:48 1996
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 18:32:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610190028.TAA00124@metal.err.com>
On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Scott Mace wrote:
> Gated IMO is a good thing. The problem is the OS/hardware that it
> runs on top of. I would dred having to install something that needs
> a hard drive to route packets in a light-out POP.
Gated doesn't require a hard drive. It merely requires a direct access
storage device. With a little bit of creativity this requirement could be
met with a RAM drive or a PCMCIA RAM card or similar.
Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com
