On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Peter (peabo) Olson wrote:
On February 1, 2014 at 2:42 AM Tom Metro <[email protected]> wrote:
Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/in-a-distributed-world-cache-is-king-why-routers-are-becoming-the-new-server/
[...]
Cisco's IOx architecture will be a Linux-based operating system that
will be embedded in forthcoming industrial routers.
And unlike its previous box software, Cisco says it plans to open the
IOx architecture up for others to run their own applications on
A router should be a router. Allowing applications to run on it invites serious
security risks.
Perhaps they are thinking of load balancing/security/monitoring as the
type of application that a user might run on the router itself. I don't
imagine they expect users to run SQL or Word.
Daniel Feenberg
NBER
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