[5449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John G. Scudder)
Fri Oct 18 23:14:12 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961018183055.17591N-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 23:09:31 -0400
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
From: "John G. Scudder" <jgs@ieng.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 6:32 PM -0700 10/18/96, Michael Dillon wrote:
>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.
Exactly. Note that the Ascend GRF-400 (the 4-slot GigaRouter) does exactly
this with (I believe) a big honkin' pile of flash.
--John
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