First post, by Rodoko
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As the title says, I rescued from the place where I learn my computer related stuff a Nortel Baystack Instant Internet 100-s 7 port switch and I opened up and it was SO filthy that I cleaned all up and I discovered that has an embedded PC so the thing was going to be fun to play with
Inside the bad boy we have a NII-100 embedded PC motherboard sporting a Cyrix MII @ 333 MHz, 140 MB of RAM (12 MB built-in and the rest is on the 128 MB memory module that I installed), no graphics but it has a VGA pinout and no PS/2 or USB ports, kinda similar to the first wireless router that LGR covered up in a video
Also, the machine has an 8 MB Sandisk CF card containing all the software needed to run the switch which is based in Datalight ROM-DOS so it starts up pretty quickly but you need to give it some time to make the connection
The complicated thing is to find the software it needs to be managed since part of Nortel was bought by Avaya in 2005 and they only have the manuals but no software and Googling around I found an updated version of the software that was meant for this thing's sucessor so... that was a nice thing to know
The name "Baystack" originated from Bay Networks, a company which specialized in networking applications like making hubs, switches and all those kinds of things and if you didn't know, the company was bought by Nortel in 1998 but a part of it ended in a company you guys might know and that is... Netgear!!
Netgear as you know makes all networking based stuff from routers to big-ass switches
Anyhoo, I'll end this post with some pics and as well, the manual and software for the switch