From: Sheahan, John (John.Sheahan@priceline.com)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 15:51:53 GMT-3
Recently there have been several articles in the recent IT magazines and
online talking about how open source routers and firewalls are the
future.
I have had several arguments with unix geeks about why we shouldn't use
these over Cisco devices in production scenarios.
There is apparently a growing project called XORP that is developing
open source code which can currently route OSPF and BGP on a PC.
I am trying to develop a list of good reasons to help diffuse this line
of thinking. I know the router code isn't prime time yet but apparently
the firewall code for Linux is.
Can anyone help me come up with some good reasons why not to use the
open source firewall on Linux over a Pix or Checkpoint firewall?
Thanks
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