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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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