Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: TOE brain dump | Date | Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:36:15 -0700 | From | "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <> |
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> From: Larry McVoy [mailto:lm@bitmover.com] > > > 2. router nodes that have access to main memory (PCI card running linux > > acting as a router/firewall/VPN to offload the main CPU's) > > I can get an entire machine, memory, disk, > Ghz CPU, case, power supply, > cdrom, floppy, onboard enet extra net card for routing, for $250 or less, > quantity 1, shipped to my door. > > Why would I want to spend money on some silly offload card when I can get > the whole PC for less than the card?
Because you want to stack 200 of those together in a huge data center interconnecting whatever you want to interconnect and you don't want your maintenance costs to go up to the sky?
I see your point, though :)
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