Re: [SLUG] little purple boxes (WAS: CCNA DVD)

From: Steven Van Tilburg (vt@ariestechgroup.com)
Date: Wed Feb 03 2010 - 10:17:50 EST


On 2/3/2010 9:48 AM, blee2@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> Sorry, they're 1U high and 1/2 U wide.
> No, not SGI/IRIX.
>
> They're from a failed project at the last company I worked for. We
> bought them from a company called "Oculan" that made an open source
> based network monitor with a common web interface. These little boxes
> were for IDS/monitoring and a Nagios/SNMP polling type setup. They have
> 3 NICs, a serial port and an internal CF reader that connects to IDE
> for storage. But that's about it. ...The power switches are cool too.
> We were never able to get them to boot anything except what is in flash.
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Are they some sort of x86 box? Do you get any sort of BIOS or start
screen when booting?

VT
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