Inside PIX?

[ark () eltex spb ru]

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nuqneH,

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)

..i am just curious. It would be funny to see IOS running on PC ;) 

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