Re: (ASCEND) Token Ring and Pipe 75?

To: Dave McFerren <davem@solve.net>
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) Token Ring and Pipe 75?
From: Steve Camas <stevec@liii.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 17:59:35 -0400 (EDT)
cc: ascend-users@bungi.com
In-Reply-To: <199810092129.QAA05602@china.solve.net>
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dave McFerren wrote:

> Why not get a 486 with 8 meg of ram for about $200 and put linux on it.  Put a 
> token ring card and an ethernet card and have it either bridge or route.  You 
> could even run ip masquerading on the machine for a type of firewalling, or to 
> save ip addresses.  I've done it and it works like a charm, and the price is 
> right.

This is exactly why we used NT and Linux to do it -- it just doesn't pay
to buy 'special' HW.

Steve


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Re: (ASCEND) Token Ring and Pipe 75?

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