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Subject: RE: TOE brain dump
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:36:15 -0700
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From: "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
To: "Larry McVoy" <lm@bitmover.com>,
       "David Lang" <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: "Erik Andersen" <andersen@codepoet.org>,
       "Werner Almesberger" <werner@almesberger.net>,
       "Jeff Garzik" <jgarzik@pobox.com>, <netdev@oss.sgi.com>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Nivedita Singhvi" <niv@us.ibm.com>
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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 :)

I?aky P?rez-Gonz?lez -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own (and my fault)
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