Re: Inside PIX?

[Rudolf Schreiner <ras () muc de>]

On Thu, 14 May 1998 ark () eltex spb ru wrote:

> There was a posting in relcom.comp.security some days ago: one man
> told he opened the PIX box and guess what was inside? Yep, you are
> right. The generic chinese PC motherboard with Pentium CPU.
> Not just some Pentium-based piece of hardware, but _PC_ motherboard.

Telebit's Netblazer was a simple PC, with all the "nice" features of 
cheap PCs: Exploding power supplies and unreliable floppy disk drives. Many 
years ago I've seen a working Netblazer clone, you just needed the right main 
board and a copy of the Netblazer BIOS EPROM. A quite common trick was 
using cheap ethernet cards from the PC shop instead of the $$$ Telebit 
interfaces. I had to use a (original!!) Netblazer as a packet filter, 
Without much success, the simple routing between ethernet interfaces 
didn't work reliably.

Rudi