[178193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 19 13:20:24 2015
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <058cab743af44a769e8bae4e57c10915@BRTEXMB02.phillips66.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:15:46 -0800
To: "Darden, Patrick" <Patrick.Darden@p66.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
The PIX was originally developed as a =E2=80=9CNetwork Translation, =
Inc.=E2=80=9D box (translation.com <http://translation.com/>). (John =
Mayes, Brantley Coile, Johnson Wu)
Cisco continued the PIX name for many years and through some major =
changes to the operating system. A later round of major changes had it =
renamed to ASA.
Up through PIX 7 the PIX and ASA ran the same code releases. With PIX 8, =
PIX continued on the Finesse OS line, but ASA went to a Linux kernel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX =
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX>
Owen
Cisco bought that and renamed it PIX=20
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Darden, Patrick <Patrick.Darden@p66.com> =
wrote:
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> I believe the ASA was first developed as the PIX on Plan 9. The OS =
that came out of that was originally called Finesse OS, but was later =
renamed as PIX OS. After Cisco purchased the PIX and renamed it to the =
ASA, they began using a Linux kernel around PIX OS V8.
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> --p
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+patrick.darden=3Dp66.com@nanog.org] =
On Behalf Of Justin M. Streiner
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 3:28 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
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> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Closed-source software is faith-based security.
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> 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 is.
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> jms
