Hi all,
Cisco PIX is not IOS. The operating system was developed for the PIX, it
is solely PIX OS. The PIX development group used OpenBSD as a reference
implementation for protocol support, so this has led to rumors that the PIX
is *BSD based. It is not BSD based.
The PIX does have an X86 motherboard. However the PIX OS installed on the
flash does not provide support for video, or any additional devices. So,
if you really wanted to, you could remove the PIX OS flash device, install
a video card, keyboard, disk drive, etc, and have a PC on which you could
load any old OS you wanted. Not recommended, and would possibly void your
product warranty.
Thanks much,
Lisa Napier
Product Security Incident Response Team
Cisco Systems
At 04:48 PM 01/23/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
>
>we just had a little discussion here about Cisco PIX which none of us knows.
>The Question is: What Operating System is in them (or what is the OS based
>on)?
>It is not IOS I guess.
>
>Konstantin
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