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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 >-- >Andrew Bangs, Network Engineering Team Leader, Demon Internet Ltd >[email protected] http://www.demon.net/ http://www.demon.nl/ > >
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