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Linux on Nokia IP Series Hardware

Posted by timothy on from the but-it-wasn't-designed-for-that dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Michael Rash has written a howto for the Linux Journal on getting Linux to run on a Nokia IP 330. Now we can use a free firewall on a platform normally designed to run Check Point Firewall-1. In these troubling times where IT departments all across the landscape are trying to reduce costs, this will allow companies to say 'No' to expensive support contracts and upgrade costs and still maintain security without having to buy new hardware."

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  1. Re:IPSO is More than Security by convolvatron · · Score: 5, Informative

    actually no. i was in the group that did the kernel work for ipso. it has a custom ip forwarding path and forwarding table machinery. the routing is done using a largely rewritten version of...gated

    these three things and the management system make ipso a good software routing platform.

    which doesn't really offset the cost of what is a pretty sluggish pc