On Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:31:35 -0400 (EDT) Chris Wilson <cbw@atlantic.net> wrote:
I'm not sure how the person who was discussing it on the other list was doing it.. maybe they were talking about ISA ;) In any case, I'd be pretty fearful of running OC-level bandwidth over a PC... "Gee, the corporate network went down because the router's hard drive crashed!"
Uhh, then you'd have backups, I know of several largish networks using PC's as routers, I personally have put in a PC router topology and never had a single hard disk failure, the drives are not very active, only really at boot time, and another point is that whilst doing this I never had the problems that a lot of ISP's with Cisco routers where having... Neil. -- Neil J. McRae. Alive and Kicking. Domino: In the glow of the night. neil@DOMINO.ORG NetBSD/sparc: 100% SpF (Solaris protection Factor) Free the daemon in your <A HREF="http://www.NetBSD.ORG/">computer!</A>