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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: More hardware design (was Re: GigaRouter)
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. :-) --blast %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \ Tim Keanini | "The limits of my language, / / | are the limits of my world." \ \ [email protected] | --Ludwig Wittgenstein / \ +================================================/ |Key fingerprint = 7B 68 88 41 A8 74 AB EC F0 37 98 4C 37 F7 40 D6 | / PUB KEY: http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-commands.html \ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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