On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Martin wrote:
> Plenty of people are still using BSD in various appliances, though it's
> not BSDi, but FreeBSD (usually.) Red Creek is an example. The real
The point is that even paying a Unix vendor isn't palatable these days for
the embedded space.
> problem with NT (embedded or no, in a firewall context) is not the price
> -- If it really did everything microsoft claims it will, it would be
> worth the cost! The problems with NT are its poor networking performance
Not per-unit compared to a *BSD or Linux solution. I don't know what
volumes the firewall appliance guys are shipping, but it adds up to real
numbers really quickly if you're shipping x00,000 units. That's the same
reason WinCE is having the same troubles. Even before you get into
maintenance and performance, there has to be a sound business case.
Someone actually has an embedded NT router on the market, I forget who.
Paul
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