Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

The PIX was originally developed as a “Network Translation, Inc.” box (translation.com <http://translation.com/>). 
(John Mayes, Brantley Coile, Johnson Wu)

Cisco continued the PIX name for many years and through some major changes to the operating system. A later round of 
major changes had it renamed to ASA.

Up through PIX 7 the PIX and ASA ran the same code releases. With PIX 8, PIX continued on the Finesse OS line, but ASA 
went to a Linux kernel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_PIX>

Owen

Cisco bought that and renamed it PIX 
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Darden, Patrick <Patrick.Darden () p66 com> wrote:
>
> I believe the ASA was first developed as the PIX on Plan 9.  The OS that came out of that was originally called 
> Finesse OS, but was later renamed as PIX OS.  After Cisco purchased the PIX and renamed it to the ASA, they began 
> using a Linux kernel around PIX OS V8.
>
> --p
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+patrick.darden=p66.com () nanog org] On Behalf Of Justin M. Streiner
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 3:28 AM
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: Intrusion Detection recommendations
>
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 02:45:46PM -0600, Rafael Possamai wrote:
> > > I am a huge fan of FreeBSD, but for a medium/large business I'd 
> > > definitely use a fairly well tested security appliance like Cisco's ASA.
> >
> > Closed-source software is faith-based security.
>
> The ASA, like so many network/security appliances anymore, runs Linux (or
> *BSD) under the hood, however I don't know how old or horribly mangled it is.
>
> jms