[ih] The linux router project and wifi routers

John Day jeanjour at comcast.net
Wed Nov 2 11:25:29 PDT 2022


We did a VME IP router for Project Athena in what must have been 82-84. Have to find someone who remembers.

> On Nov 2, 2022, at 14:05, Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> By-the-way, lest it be forgotten, Doug Karl wrote an early IP router and an ethernet switch that ran on fairly vanilla PC-platforms.  They worked pretty well.
> 
> I think they were PC/MS-DOS based and used John Romkey's packet driver design (with specific implementations by Russ Nelson) for the various Ethernet cards out there.
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>     --karl--
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