is there a market for this?
Nathan Stratton
nathan at netrail.net
Wed Jul 23 21:28:59 UTC 1997
We tested this card, you dont want it in your network.
Nathan Stratton President, NetRail,Inc.
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Bob Oyler wrote:
>
> Check out www.sdlcomm.com, I believe they have a HSSI card for a PCI bis
>
> At 03:47 PM 7/23/97 +0100, Andrew Bangs wrote:
> >Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> >>
> >> As for the other implication, although I personally don't run or
> >> intend to run networks using normal unix boxes as routers (and BTW,
> >> PCI bus covers Power-PC hardware, Alphas and soon Suns, too!), I know of
> >> organizations like Demon in the U.K. that run almost exclusively this
> >> way and seem to like it a lot.
> >>
> >
> >UK and Netherlands :-)
> >
> >They seem to work well as routers with ethernet, fast ethernet and
> >fddi, and we make quite a bit of use of the ZNYX multi-port ethernet
> >cards where we need higher port density.
> >
> >We ended up buying a non-PC router when we wanted a HSSI connection
> >somewhere. Has anyone found a nice HSSI-PCI card that has support
> >in any of the BSD-a-likes ?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrew
> >--
> >Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd
> >andrewb at demon.net http://www.demon.net/ http://www.demon.nl/
> >
> >
>
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