On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:13:49AM -0500, J.A. Terranson wrote:

> A NIC?  You gotta realize that we're talking about mesh circuits here:
> OC3-OC48 trunks, OC192 backbones... This is no small job.  A mom/pop or

At times of 10 GBit Ethernet, OC192 data rate doesn't seem all that
intimidating. 

A standard 1U Dell should have enough crunch to just filter out the 
plain text packets of a 1 GBps Ethernet line.

> midsized regional maybe you could do this - you know, the guy with a half
> a dozen DS3s.

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