[c-nsp] Telnet FROM a PIX Appliance?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Telnet FROM a PIX Appliance?
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> 
> What!?  The original PIX code was < 500k as the first versions from 
> Network Translations only had 512k flash moodules in them.  There is no 
> way that it was based on Windows, not even 3.1.  I think you are 
> thinking of the Centri (or whatever it was called) that was windows 
> based that they bought many years ago.  I actually worked at Cisco when 
> they bought the PIX and the Centri and then they killed the Centri 
> shortly thereafter.  I think the Centri ran on Windows 95, but I am not 
> 100% sure as that was 10+ years ago.
> 

Interesting, I'm sure your correct.

> IMO, the reason that so many people use(d) the PIX is that they just 
> work.

I disagree.  The reason they use them is they are cheap.  Cisco
did not require a separate IOS license the way that they do with
a router running IOS-Firewall Feature set.

Ted