Re: Juicy Rumour!

Darren K. Bolding (darren@ipa.net)
Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:47:36 -0500 (CDT)

In the previous message, Steve Norton said:
>
> On Thu, 14 Sep 1995, Scott Henry wrote:
> > BRIs are not interesting to me. PRIs is! Plus, the system would
> > have to work with our B-channel sharing PPP. Of course, once you
> > get more than 2 PRIs on a box, you begin to want FDDI for your
> > network interface instead of ethernet...
>
> FDDI on a terminal server is a little bit overkill. A better solution is
> to attach the PM to a good ethernet switch (Cisco Catalyst 1200) which has
> a builtin FDDI attachment.
>
> --SN
>
>

did you just describe the Catalyst as a good switch? I had numerous
nightmares with the things back in February, of course the net-manager
at the site I was on INSISTED on doing routing with the suckers.
Repeated beta-os upgrades from Cisco seemed to help some- are these
things now stable when pounded? Just wondering, since this was the
thing that shook my faith in the one-true-router.

--D.

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