Re: network appliance...

[olle () NXS SE (Olle Segerdahl)]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, JT wrote:

> has anyone heard of vulnerabilities in the Network Appliance base operating systems? they're the company that makes 
> large filer head systems and my company is considering buying one. the operating system is unix or unix based but an 
> nmap scan on known open ports in demonstration showed absolutely nothing - no operating systems id either. i was 
> curious as to whether this is really as safe as it seems...

If I remember correctlly, the configuration interface of these devices
closelly resembles the UN*X standard, this does *not* however imply that
they use a UN*X-like operating system or kernel......

If indeed their code (kernel, OS, call it what you like) is UN*X-like it
would probably be more or less completely developed in-house.

At least, I havn't seen any of the usual "advertising clause" messages....

/olle