dcrocker@twg.COM (Dave Crocker) (07/15/88)
WIN/ROUTE is a recently-announced product from Wollongong. It turns a PC into a dedicated IP router with up to 3 interfaces. SLIP is not in the current release but is operational and will be in the next release. Addition of drivers to the product is simple enough that we could probably be talked into allowing controlled release of the SLIP interface prior to the next "official" release of the product. The new version of the product also will allow many more interfaces. (Somewhere between 8 and infinity seems to be the range. No doubt the real limiting factor will turn out to be the number of card slots your box provides.) Performance of the router correlates directly with the speed of the processor and represents an almost straight-line tradeoff of price-performace, when compared against the $10,000 / 1-1500 pkt/sec IP routers. A turbo XT represents an amazingly cost-beneficial base, given the 8Mhz clock speed and ridiculously low purchase prices -- you will spend more for your ethernet cards, for an ether-to-ether relay. Dave Crocker VP, Engineering The Wollongong Group
sam@NCSUVX.NCSU.EDU (Your Friend Sam Moore) (07/18/88)
> > WIN/ROUTE is a recently-announced product from Wollongong. It turns a > PC into a dedicated IP router with up to 3 interfaces. [delete] > > Dave Crocker > VP, Engineering > The Wollongong Group > > Is there a Token Ring driver/interface? Does it support RIP? If there is any information on it where can i get it. thanks, Sam Moore NCSU Computing Center Raleigh, NC sam@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu