> >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.. > >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 >(assuming that IOS was really written in gcc as rumors say): not easy >but not harder than porting from one cisco hardware platform to another >(some ciscos are (were) actually a m68k-based _computer_ with nearly >no tricky hardware things implemented and others have nearly nothing >common with first ones) > The PIX box was created by a company that cisco bought a few years ago. For example, in Version 2.x of the PIX software, the command to save the configuration to a floppy was "save -f", in Version 3.x, cisco made the commands more IOS-like and they changed this command to "write floppy". I think the internal codebase is not IOS. - Randy -
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