New Equipment - Anybody try'em?

Sun Aug 10 11:31:59 UTC 1997

Douglas Jardine sez:
> Also is anybody out there trying to build backbones out of all the
> new Gigabit ethernet gear being announced? At first glance, it seems
> to me that these layer 2/3 products are capable of Interior routing, 
> besides switching at mosnstrous speed.

FWIW, Don Becker has written Linux drivers for the Packet Engines card.
See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html for
code. He spoke of it briefly at a LUG meeting. Operative words were
"WOW" I think.

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