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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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