Open-Source Router to Take on Cisco?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday March 6, 2006 @11:11AM from the combatting-security-by-obscurity dept.

ickypick writes to tell us that CNN is running an article about the emergence of an OpenSource Router product, currently in Beta, that targets mid-size enterprise customers for about one-fifth the cost of current enterprise networking giants' hardware. From the article: "The machine runs on two Intel chips, but far more noteworthy is its software, known as XORP, or extensible open router platform. The versatile open-source application can direct data traffic for a giant corporation as easily as it can manage a home Wi-Fi network." The current release is available for download from Vyatta's web site."

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Re:I foresee a day by Drakin030 · 2006-03-06 14:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Hell. I would love to see an experiment where an entire corporate network was made, entirely of Open Source products
Yeah and then the security vulnerabilities rise. I will never use Open Sores in my networks.
BSD-style license by dhart · 2006-03-06 15:39 · Score: 1, Flamebait

BSD-style license and backed by Intel and Microsoft? You might as well write them a check with a note "here's some help in your crusade against Cisco".

No thanks, I'd rather contribute to a GPL project, like a router derivation of Embedded Ubuntu.
Re:I foresee a day by Jozer99 · 2006-03-07 00:59 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Oh, I opened up your woman's code base long ago.

Take that!