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Subject: RE: TOE brain dump
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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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.