21 Oct
1996
21 Oct
'96
2:48 p.m.
Tim Keanini writes:
If you open up Cisco's PIX box, you will find that it is a PCI based motherboard with an ISA card that looks to the system like a drive. The ISA card has flash on it where you save off configurations and boot off of. When the box wakes up, it just boots off the ISA card. The only other cards in it are your NIC cards (ETHERNET, FAST-ETHERNET or TokenRING).
IT is very clean and the only moving part is the floppy drive that is under a cover with a lock. :-)
I suspect that the Compaq IOS box looks about the same. Has anyone used one of those? /a