Re: Inside PIX?

["Rodney van den Oever" <roever () nse simac nl>]

> There was a posting in relcom.comp.security some days ago: one man
> told he opened the PIX box and guess what was inside? Yep, you are
> right. The generic chinese PC motherboard with Pentium CPU.
> Not just some Pentium-based piece of hardware, but _PC_ motherboard.
> IDE controller and some other things were removed but..

So what's your point?

> Then, did anybody try to take a closer look on the software?
> I guess (if the assumption that PIX software is an IOS derivative is
> right) porting IOS to the PC was not as hard as one might think

It's not IOS, cisco bought the product (along with the company?) It's a
real-time Unix-like kernel.

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