Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>
> On 1999-08-18T11:01:10,
> root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > > > What do you think cisco's et al run? Most run a Unix like FreeBSD, and
> > > > now some Linux.
> > > eh? I thought they ran cisco's IOS..
> > That is a front end for the underlying routing core. (Kernel, etc)
>
> IOS is the kernel too.
It's a shell. I could compile a shell into linux quite easily.
Instead we just let it call /sbin/init (or /bin/sh or others)
when it finishes up main(). That way is just better.
>A Cisco does not run Unix.
And you know they did not start off with a unix kernel how?
> > I could emulate IOS with LRP, but WTF in their right mind would want to?
>
> Because it works. And has the best CLI in existance.
It doesn't come near the power, flexablity, and widely known bourne
shell.
When you can access a cisco via ssh, and can do for loops from IOS let
me know.
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