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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interesting.

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess Dad should be the guy writing this but he not have a clue. He is
a good guy and everything but according to Mom's sex journal, he is about as
exciting as watching paint drying in bed.

I do not really have anything to do with what happened to get my Mom all
knocked-up again other then I found her sex journal and thought it might make
an interesting story if I put it all together. I guess some people are going to
think I am a creep for airing the family's dirty laundry but I figure that
things are going to be pretty obvious around here in four months anyhow, when
Mom delivers, so...

I guess it looks like Mom first went Black as a special holiday treat
this past Christmas. I guess she did seem to have a bit of a spring in her
step, but I had no idea at the time that it was put there by anyone other then
my father.

Her sex journal reads and I quote "I saw Jamal today. I am practically
old enough to be his mother. I know what he wants when he looks at me and I
want it too. Boys are so horny at nineteen. I guess I am only thirty-seven. I
could still even get pregnant. Wouldn't that just kill Dwayne. *S*!

Dwayne is my father. I can only imagine what will happen when Mom goes in
the stirups and pops out a little curly-headed, half-breed bastard to "color"
the family name. Hell, he might just take it. I mean his first reaction to even
finding out that Mom was pregnant was to suggest an abortion.

I guess it might be insightful to share the "history." According to Mom's
diary, she kept herself pure for Dad right up to the walk down the aisle. She
really had nothing for comparison for the consummation fuck and was still a
little disappointed. She thought it was her fault. The only good thing is she
must be like the most fertile woman in the world as she conceived immediately
and I entered the world as a honeymoon baby.

Dad was having performance issues almost from day one according to Mom's
diary, and she finally booked him into a visit to the clinic. Dad must have
felt figuratively castrated when he was told his sperm count was so fucking low
that it was a miracle he had delivered into Mom even once. I am sure that the
doctor used more kinder words, but Mom never in her diary.

I actually felt sorry for Dad and kind of thought Mom was a bitch when I
got my first read of things in April. Mom sent me up to do some spring cleaning
in the attic and the box was open with the diaries on top and the sex journal
right there too so who knows just what sick game she is playing. I half suspect
it will wet her panties if she sees that I am putting all this up on the
Internet.

It has not even been all that hard of a choice to make. Mom made
herself a sex object to me a long time ago. I mean nothing sick, but she
certainly has never been that shy about false modesty around the house. The
best time was when I caught her with Nigel. That is the name I have given her
fourteen inch big, Black, lifelike, pretend cock that she keeps in her panty
drawer.

I never placed any special significance on the fact that "Nigel" was
Black, but then I never thought Mom would be the type of girl to suffer from
jungle fever either.

Mom actually had always struck me as a bit of a racist. Dad might as well
wear the sheets at Halloween because he pretty much lives in them around the
year. I guess "Niggers" can be blamed for all the problems of the world
according to him. It is funny I never grew up with that atti

Get a D-Link or a LinkSys, Routers r a commodity

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't beleive how many businesses get scammed by the snake oil called "Cisco Routers"
Why spend $500 on a 8xx-model router, when a $50 D-Link or Linksys works OUT OF THE BOX just as good as a Cisco Router with some high priced CCNA consultant setting it up for $200 per hour.
They may have been "special" 10 years ago, but nowadays they are a rip off
I can do anything with a LinkSys that you can do with a high prices Cisco router both come with 10/100 ports and do NAT, firewalling, and even VPN
why why why buy a Cisco router?

mod 04

[Anonymous Coward]

vitality. Like an a previously and as BSD sinks on 3aby...don't

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

[pyite]

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.