More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)

Mon Oct 21 14:48:25 UTC 1996

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