On 02/01/2014 07:46 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > 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.
Once they open the gate users can put just about anything on there. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
