RE: TOE brain dump

From: Larry McVoy [mailto:lm@bitmover.com]

quoted

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 :)

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)

On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 19:36, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote:

quoted

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?

17cm squared, fanless, network booting. Its not as big a cost as
you might think, and TOE cards fail too, the difference being that if
they are now out of production you have a nasty mess on your hands.