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Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
From: Rob Liebschutz <rob () rjl com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 96 10:25:57 PDT
Jim Dixon writes:Gated IMO is a good thing. The problem is the OS/hardware that it runs on top of. I would dred having to install something that needs a hard drive to route packets in a light-out POP.You don't need a hard drive. Use some of the money you saved by not buying C***o to buy lots of DRAM. Boot from floppy. Or even buy a flash-based hard drive emulator. Or combine the two solutions.I've been thinking about this. A while ago I saw a product that emulated dual 1.4MB floppies in flash on an ISA card. This seemed like a good way to start. Has anyone actually tried this? What flash product did you use? /a --- Alexis Rosen Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC. alexis () panix com
I've been thinking about doing this for a while now. The only product that I've found so far is made by a company called MCSI ((619) 598-2177) , but the only thing I've been able to get out of them so far is that the darn thing emulates a DOS filesystem through the bios, though they referred me to another company that does the firmware for their card, and claimed that this company could do custom firmware for me. I think MCSI has a card that emulates a dual floppy as well. I'd love a card that just provided a single raw drive emulations, even IDE would be fine, so I could just copy a whole bootable file sytem image into it, but I guess 2 floppy images would suffice. The card that emulated an 8mb DOS filesystem was only around $300. Rob - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) John G. Scudder (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) alex (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Scott Mace (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Michael Dillon (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) John G. Scudder (Oct 18)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Jim Dixon (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Curtis Villamizar (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Curtis Villamizar (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Michael Dillon (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Michael Dillon (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Alexis Rosen (Oct 21)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Robert E. Seastrom (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Deepak Jain (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Michael Dillon (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Robert E. Seastrom (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Deepak Jain (Oct 19)
- Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother)) Neil J. McRae (Oct 21)