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Re: is there a market for this?


From: Nathan Stratton <nathan () netrail net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 21:28:59 +0000 (GMT)


We tested this card, you dont want it in your network.


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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
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Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd
andrewb () demon net    http://www.demon.net/   http://www.demon.nl/






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