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Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
- From: Alexis Rosen
- Date: Mon Oct 21 10:56:31 1996
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
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