There always comes a time when vendors move their support resources from your slightly aged product to their brand-spanking new products. The hardware is fine and capable of doing so much more, but is ...
i have a linux router that has been faithfully serving IPv4 for quite some time. my ISP is now offering IPv6 and i am looking to get my hands dirty with some newness. being that this topic is mostly ...
Why run your firewall on the same box as your router? What's the point in running a router with only 2 interfaces? All packets that come in on A are going out on B and vice-versa unless stopped by the ...
Admittedly, Cisco probably isn’t (nor should it be) shaking in its boots over Linux router startups. Still another such player, ImageStream, is impressively strutting its stuff at Interop New York ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. &#151 Cisco Systems Inc. announced at its Partner Summit in Hawaii on Thursday (April 10) that it would open up both Linux-based integrated services routers (ISR) and ...
Users have been pondering the idea of Cisco-routers-turned-Linux-app-servers and have found the idea wanting. Last week, Cisco set tongues a-waggin’ with its announcement that its Integrated Services ...
Although it's true that I tend to focus mostly on Linux in systems administration (after all, that is my day job), I've always had a secondary interest in security, whether it's hardening systems, ...
Scientists at Berkeley are close to releasing an open-source software code that could do for routing what Linux did for operating systems. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, ...
Firmware is the low-level software programmed into a device's read-only memory, responsible for controlling its hardware functions. In the context of routers and networking equipment, firmware ...