[tech] Switchesu

[David Manchester]

> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:40:31PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > 
> > Err, I said this last night, but without a 100Mb card on the router, this
> > is pointless. One of the plan 9 boxen is a pentium and is already mounted
> > in a rackmount case ... would fryers miss it much if we made it the
> > router?
> 
> We have a Pentium-based router with two 100Mb cards half constructed. It's 
> all good. Someone seems to have pinched one of the two cards though - I 
> suspect [TDH] took it for testing compatibility with normal Tulips.

Guilty.

> The reason I sent email about this is that it's a good thing to do as well 
> as upgrading the router. We talked about upgrading the router last night.

What is the system that we have earmarked for the router?

Would it be worth buying a cheap 5 PCI slotmotherboard and a Celeron for
the task?

Cheers
/dave

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