More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)

Mon Oct 21 14:05:24 UTC 1996

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. :-)

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