[5494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexis Rosen)
Mon Oct 21 18:34:38 1996
From: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>
To: blast@broder.com (Tim Keanini)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:48:25 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961021070017.17253E-100000@moonix.broder.com> from "Tim Keanini" at Oct 21, 96 07:05:24 am
Tim Keanini writes:
> If you open up Cisco's PIX box, you will find that it is a PCI based
> motherboard with an ISA card that looks to the system like a drive.
> The ISA card has flash on it where you save off configurations and
> boot off of. When the box wakes up, it just boots off the ISA card.
> The only other cards in it are your NIC cards (ETHERNET, FAST-ETHERNET or TokenRING).
>
> IT is very clean and the only moving part is the floppy drive that is
> under a cover with a lock. :-)
I suspect that the Compaq IOS box looks about the same. Has anyone used one
of those?
/a
