RE: Firewall Throughput

["LeGrow, Matt" <Matt_LeGrow () NAI com>]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Nielsen [mailto:cnielsen () pobox com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 3:41 PM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Firewall Throughput
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Patrick Darden wrote:
>
> > I would like to know where they state that.  It would be pretty
> > hypocritical as the PIX has a Unix based OS (Plan 9).
>
> Plan9 is in NO WAY a UNIX-based OS. Plan9 does contain some 
> of the ideas
> that originated with UNIX, but it is a completely rearchitected OS.
>
> Go read the papers at http://plan9/bell-labs.com/sys/doc/
>
> Where did you read/hear that the PIX runs Plan9?

The Lucent Managed Firewall runs on top of Inferno, which arose from
the work done on Plan 9...perhaps this is what you are thinking of?


> -- 
> Christopher Nielsen
> (enkhyl|cnielsen)@pobox.com
> "Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." --rob
> pike  
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Matt LeGrow
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