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Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)Posted Oct 9, 2009 6:16 UTC (Fri) by eduperez (guest, #11232)Parent article: Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet)
The contest proved that server-side Linux developers who know C/C++, Java, or Python can now write applications to Cisco routers with little or no knowledge of routers. Back in the old times, routers where routers, and they where almost as reliable as a switch or a hub; now, we are going to have applications inside routers, written by people "with little or no knowledge of routers". Am I the only one to find this scary?
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Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 9, 2009 7:06 UTC (Fri) by pbrutsch (guest, #4987) [Link]
For quite a while now Cisco has offered expansion modules for their routers that are single-board computers running Linux.
These modules include an IDS module (the NM-IDS) and a series a HTTP caching modules (such as the NM-CE-BP-40G-K9 and NM-CE-BP-80G-K9).
All Cisco has done is provide a way for third parties to run code on one of these NM modules specifically designated for this purpose.
So, routers are still routers and switches are still switches. Unless you have a layer 3 switch, that is ;)
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 12, 2009 15:29 UTC (Mon) by jmm82 (guest, #59425) [Link]
"So, routers are still routers and switches are still switches. Unless you have a layer 3 switch, that is ;)"
Didn't routers stop being routers a long time ago when the first nat device was hacked together. That was the beginning of the end for simple layer 3 routing devices. Once they got to layer 4 you knew it was only time before they attacked layer 5.
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 9, 2009 8:06 UTC (Fri) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]
X86 instead of Broadcom processors will make them consume less power.
Allowing people with "little or no knowledge or routers" to write code for them is in order to make them more secure.
The article makes perfect sense :-)
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Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 9, 2009 8:40 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
What? There's a CPU out there that draws more power than an (Intel/AMD) x86?
Amazing.
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 9, 2009 11:24 UTC (Fri) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]
That's why this is so *newsworthy*!!!
Cisco becomes a major Linux server vendor overnight (cnet) Posted Oct 10, 2009 0:16 UTC (Sat) by njs (guest, #40338) [Link]
Presumably that would be the Broadcom ia64.
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