Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

Speaking of which: I have been looking for a reasonable priced hardware
ramdisk. The ones I've seen (albeit expensive) are essentially a brick
with DIMMs in them, and have either a IDE or SCSI interface. Some have a
battery to back them up for a few hours.

Anyone got some pointers?



On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jake Baillie wrote:

> Let me elaborate. I thought Steve was concerned about the limited
> writablity of flash.
>
> My thought was to build something like a Linux router, you'd have to load
> the OS into a RAMdisk (or something similar), and only write to flash when
> the config changed. Which means you'd need some sort of singular
> configuration file.
>
> But I was wrong. :) He meant "read-only"
>
> *back to lurk mode*
>
> -- jb
>
> At 02:49 PM 5/23/2002 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
> > And making it *write-only* as the original poster asked, would fix things
> > how?

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