the garden of nerdy delight

<This is an old draft I just finished. Oy!>
We just received a brand new Foundry FastIron Gigabit switch at work. It’s to be used in our new network-based editing configuration. I’m testing it out to see if it will handle 8 simultaneous video captures. Here’s the boot message from this bad boy:

FGS Boot Code Version 02.4.00
Enter ‘b’ to stop at boot …
BOOT INFO: load monitor from primary, size = 84371
BOOT INFO: load image from primary…….
BOOT INFO: bootparam at 00049268, mp_flash_size = 001dc352
BOOT INFO: code decompression completed
BOOT INFO: branch to 00400100
Starting Main Task …
Parsing Config Data …

FSecure SSH is included in this product

SW: Version 02.4.00cT7e1 Copyright (c) 1996-2006 Foundry Networks, Inc.
Compiled on Sep 06 2006 at 16:40:46 labeled as FGS02400c
(1950546 bytes) from Primary fgs02400c.bin
BootROM: Version 02.4.00T7e5 (FEv2)
HW: Stackable FGS624P
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Serial #: CH42060189
P-ASIC 0: type D804, rev 01
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400 MHz Power PC processor 8245 (version 129/1014) 66 MHz bus
512 KB boot flash memory
8192 KB code flash memory
128 MB DRAM
The system uptime is 2 seconds
The system : started=cold start

FGS624P Switch>
Power supply 1 detected and up.
PowerPC, eh? Pretty slick. It must be one of those embedded jobbies from FreeScale. With 128 MB of RAM, this is a pretty serious switch.

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