On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 11:06:22 am Greg Whynott wrote: > it works, i see folks creating networks of hosts under ESXi protected by an > ASA instance.. not for production. I'm sure its not legal but Cisco > doesn't seem to have a strong stand on it, I'd think as long as you are > using it for educational use and not commercial, they may not care a whole > bunch.
Much like Juniper's stance on Olive, perhaps? > What you can not do while emulating ASA is use encryption, no VPNs or > otherwise. this is due to the fact the ASA units use hardware encryption, > when the OS makes calls to the controller, it isn't there.. ASA, yes, but older PIX doesn't; google for 'frankenpix' to see more. Cisco used lots of embedded x86 where it made sense to do so (lots of places: LocalDirector, Content/Cache Engines, PIX, SwitchProbe, IPTV, MCS, and others).
