On 06/27/2017 02:55 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
curious, but can't a VAX of even a modern box of some sort be rigged to act as a router for this kind of thing? Admittedly just asking not knowledgeable enough to answer this question myself..
That depends on the type of interfaces you want to route between. Some of the earliest routers were PDP-11s. If you need to route something like a T1 or T3 line, that's pretty tough to do on anything but a purpose-built router due to support for those types of hardware interfaces. Further, for more modern circuits like OC192s, etc, there really aren't too many general-purpose computers available that can move data that fast in any predictable or consistent way, and nothing anywhere near as reliable or internally redundant as something like a big Cisco or Juniper machine. They exist with their six-figure price tags for a reason. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA