[178184] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darden, Patrick)
Thu Feb 19 08:59:33 2015
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From: "Darden, Patrick" <Patrick.Darden@p66.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:59:15 +0000
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I believe the ASA was first developed as the PIX on Plan 9. The OS that ca=
me out of that was originally called Finesse OS, but was later renamed as P=
IX OS. After Cisco purchased the PIX and renamed it to the ASA, they began=
using a Linux kernel around PIX OS V8.
--p
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Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM -0600, Rafael Possamai wrote:
>> I am a huge fan of FreeBSD, but for a medium/large business I'd=20
>> definitely use a fairly well tested security appliance like Cisco's ASA.
>
> Closed-source software is faith-based security.
The ASA, like so many network/security appliances anymore, runs Linux (or
*BSD) under the hood, however I don't know how old or horribly mangled it i=
s.
jms
