Appliance Vs Software based routers

[cmaurand at xyonet.com (Curtis Maurand)]

On 8/4/2010 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:
> Le 4 ao?t 2010 ? 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a ?crit :
>
>    
>> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets<laurens at daemon.be>:
>>      
>>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware...  It's however
>>> very hackish... :)
>>>        
>> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :|
>>      
> CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into VMWare or Xen...
>
> Xavier
>    
As long as VMWare's hardware (NIC , storage, etc.) line up with 
Cisco's.  You still have to have drivers.

--Curtis