[5503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Keanini)
Mon Oct 21 18:35:19 1996
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:05:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Keanini <blast@broder.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610211311.JAA24852@access.netaxs.com>
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. :-)
--blast
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