Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: TOE brain dump | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 04 Aug 2003 20:03:11 +0100 |
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On Llu, 2003-08-04 at 19:36, Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky wrote: > > 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.
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