GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

Sat Oct 19 03:09:31 UTC 1996

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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