[128366] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Whynott)
Wed Aug 4 11:47:25 2010
From: Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott@oicr.on.ca>
To: Mike Walter <mwalter@3z.net>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:44:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <A16877978862E44E9F4EECD23635750E011EA6B8@zionex1.ZION.local>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
GNS is just a front end for dynamips/qemu. ASA will run under qemu withou=
t the use of extra wrappers/tools. it will run natively under vmware too. =
ASA is basically an application running above a linux kernel. I forget w=
hat the internal name is, lisa or similar=85
-g
On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Mike Walter wrote:
> I assume the ASA's don't run natively on VMware or Xen, I assume you have=
to use something like GNS3. I think that would be fine for testing, but i=
n real world production running an ASA on GNS3 under an another OS seems li=
ke a bad idea. I hope Cisco will come out with Virtual Appliances for some=
of their products like they did for the Nexus 1000V.
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> -Mike
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daryl G. Jurbala [mailto:daryl@introspect.net]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:54 AM
> To: Xavier Beaudouin
> Cc: nanog
> Subject: Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers
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> On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
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>> Le 4 ao=FBt 2010 =E0 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a =E9crit :
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>>> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets <laurens@daemon.be>:
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>>>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware... It's howe=
ver
>>>> very hackish... :)
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>>> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :|
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>> CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into V=
MWare or Xen...
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> If that were the only qualification, PIX builds for the 515s would run un=
der VMWare or XEN as well. Maybe they do, but I've never seen it.
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