On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Noonan, Wesley wrote:
> A sizable chuck of Cisco (don't know for sure on the PIX, but I know on
> their routers) runs an OS behind the scenes that is called Xenix, XNS, ZNS,
> or something along those lines (I really don't recall the actual name). IOS
> runs on top of that (is my understanding, kind of like how Banyan ran on top
> of Unix). My point was simply, if one is going to cast the "a firewall is
> only as strong as the underlying OS" stone, they need to be prepared to cast
> that stone at virtually every firewall out there. It is hardly a ISA
> specific issue (heck, FW1 runs on MS doesn't it?).
>
Matters may have changed in more current releases of fw1, and the windows
OS' of late, but, it used to run poorly on NT. System reboots being
required often when we used it on that OS. Ran/runs much better on sun
systems. I'm not sure of the stability of the linux implementations now
availble.
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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