[Discuss] Cisco's IOx architecture

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 02/01/2014 07:46 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2014, Peter (peabo) Olson wrote:
>
>> On February 1, 2014 at 2:42 AM Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is running applications on your router really such a good idea?
>>>
>>> http://gigaom.com/2014/01/31/in-a-distributed-world-cache-is-king-why-routers-are-becoming-the-new-server/
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>   Cisco's IOx architecture will be a Linux-based operating system that
>>>   will be embedded in forthcoming industrial routers.
>>>
>>>   And unlike its previous box software, Cisco says it plans to open the
>>>   IOx architecture up for others to run their own applications on
>>
>> A router should be a router.  Allowing applications to run on it
>> invites serious
>> security risks.
>
> Perhaps they are thinking of load balancing/security/monitoring as the
> type of application that a user might run on the router itself. I
> don't imagine they expect users to run SQL or Word.

Once they open the gate users can put just about anything on there.

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