Douglas Jardine sez:
Also is anybody out there trying to build backbones out of all the new Gigabit ethernet gear being announced? At first glance, it seems to me that these layer 2/3 products are capable of Interior routing, besides switching at mosnstrous speed.
FWIW, Don Becker has written Linux drivers for the Packet Engines card. See http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html for code. He spoke of it briefly at a LUG meeting. Operative words were "WOW" I think. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433