Cisco To Develop Third-Party APIs For IOS

MT628496 tips a Computerworld article on Cisco's announcement that it plans to build IOS on a UNIX kernel, in modules, and allow third-party developers to access certain parts of it. IOS has traditionally been a closely guarded piece of software without any way for anyone to add functionality. No timetable was given for when APIs will be available. A Forrester analyst said, "...the network is one of the least programmable pieces of the infrastructure. The automation and orchestration market is far more oriented towards servers, storage and desktop environments. The ability to dynamically change the network is a missing component." The article mentions that Juniper Networks had announced on Monday its own developer platform for Juniper routers, and it's available now.

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Re:Get a D-Link or a LinkSys, Routers r a commodit

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If you reflash a Linksys with DD-WRT, it DOES support BGP and ssh. It's going to be fast ethernet only, and no support for automatic failover.

And does it support 128MB of RAM? Because you need 128MB RAM for a full Internet BGP feed.