[128162] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Laurens Vets)
Sun Jul 25 14:49:48 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:49:31 +0200
From: Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100725082137.GV28859@skywalker.creative.net.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The (more often than not) unofficial answer: using a custom platform
> raises the entry barrier for cloning/abuse/etc. It's a bit hard to
> run your appliance MIPS software on an off-the-shelf PC; but it (used)
> to be possible to run PIX software on a PC (and in a VM too, IIRC.)
Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware... It's
however very hackish... :)
