Which Red Hat?

Tue Feb 18 09:17:26 PST 2003

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 11:38:16PM -0800, Simon Cooper wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> ...text zapped...
> 
> > > SGI Indy's (the purple mini-towers) also tend to be readily available
> > > and extra NICs for them are cheap enough.
> 
> If you want to pick a colour, then an Indy is/was Cyan.  They are the offset
> pizza box systems - they don't come in "vertical", although some were part
> of the S, M, L, XL (T-shirt) "Challenge" branding.  Indy's are mostly R4k
> (some R5k) based systems.
> 
> The Indigo-2 was, ah indigo in colour, and could be mounted in the "desk
> side" vertical configuration.  This may be what you are talking about.
> 
> The original Indigo systems are from the 1991/2 era, the Indy from 1993.  
> I'm not entirely sure when the Indigo-2 came out, but it was definitely
> later than the Indy.  The Indigo-2 is R10K based.
> 
> Anyhow, both the Indy and Indigo-2 will run the latest version of IRIX
> 6.5.20.  We've (disclaimer: I work for SGI) just released a version of
> ipfilter, the PD filtering software from Darren Reed.  The software is free,
> you pay for support, see http://www.sgi.com/software/ipfilter.html
> 
> My advice to anyone building a firewall - use an operating system you are
> familiar with.  Otherwise, how are you going to know if someone has been
> messing with it, or how to fix something in a hurry?
> 
> Simon.

Actually, you were able to get Indigo 2 with R4k cpus first, then R10k.

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