Appliance Vs Software based routers

Wed Aug 4 14:53:34 UTC 2010

On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:

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> Le 4 août 2010 à 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a écrit :
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>> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets <laurens at daemon.be>:
>>> 
>>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware...  It's however
>>> very hackish... :)
>> 
>> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :|
> 
> CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into VMWare or Xen...

If that were the only qualification, PIX builds for the 515s would run under VMWare or XEN as well.  Maybe they do, but I've never seen it.