More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)

Mon Oct 21 15:24:44 UTC 1996

I missed the beginning of this thread, but so I don't know if this is a
hardware or software thread. :)  That said, about 10 days ago we installed
our first Cisco with 11.2 / NAT (NAT is the software the PIX runs).  I
must say, it was unbelievable.  Nice to have all of that function without
having another node on the network.

Our customer had an international WAN with unassigned IP addresses.  NAT
handled it like a champ and only took about 20 minutes to configure...

On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Alexis Rosen wrote:

> 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
> 