Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 17:08:46 +0000 From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net> To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Message-ID: <33C5171E.41C67EA6@tri-lakes.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970710172716.1976A-100000@super-g.inch.com>
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spork wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jul 1997, Robert Shady wrote: > > > To make things better, I would say your best bet if you want to be sure, > > would be to get one of those hard-cards, where you store everything in > > NVRAM and it looks like a very fast hard drive to your computer system. > > > -- Rob > > Do you have any more info on "hard cards"? I've not heard of this, but it > sounds like a perfect solution for routers/firewalls... > > Charles I hadn't thought of that either... :) I have seen ISA cards that did this, but your best bet nowadays may be to buy a PCMCIA flash card and a desktop PCMCIA adapter.. This allows much greater portability and you could switch cards or add another card on the fly. Those cards are a tad expensive, though. I got a 40MB typeIII PCMCIA hard drive for about $20, though.
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