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Juniper routers, the most used routing equipment after cisco, runs on FreeBSD. So everything on the internet effectively uses FreeBSD. The same goes for VxWork
by waps 13y ago
Juniper routers, the most used routing equipment after cisco, runs on FreeBSD. So everything on the internet effectively uses FreeBSD.
The same goes for VxWorks, and IOS (the cisco one).
- happywolf 13y agoThe company that owns VxWorks, Wind River System, did involve in BSD circa 2000, and the most can be said is early VxWorks did share some lineage with BSD Unix, but ever since VxWorks has been switched to WIND kernel, I doubt we can really put these two OSes in the same group.
- pstuart 13y agoNow owned by Intel.
- kristoffer 13y agoNot sure what you mean, but VxWorks is not based on FreeBSD.
- smnv 13y agoNewer Cisco IOS versions (IOS XE for example) are running as a process in linux. Old IOSes were linux-based too. Don't mix up Cisco IOS with Apple iOS (which has roots in BSD).
- stock_toaster 13y agohuh. I thought they were using a QNX based one on the new stuff.
- jauer 13y agoPlain old IOS is a monolithic program and tends to be used in older routers and current small-to-medium routers & modern spins of older product lines. IOS XR runs on QNX and tends to be used on routers in a carrier role. IOS XE runs on Linux and tends to be used on service/aggregation routers.
- stock_toaster 13y agoGood to know. Thanks for the info.
- davidw 13y agoActually the internet runs on Tcl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_IOS