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Anyone know if Cisco uses x86 CPU's in any of their current equipment?

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Buddha Bart

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My reasoning here is that most router sim's suck. But if IOS 12.x can run on x86, then couldn't cisco and vmware theoretically come out with a version of VMware that was really just different routers running IOS. Somebody would have to write a fake driver for all the VMs to think they're communicating across various differnet interfaces.

That or see if there's a PowerQUICC emulator out there somewhere. I think emulating the hardware and running a real IOS would be better than emulating IOS.

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And how, pray tell, do you plan to obtain a legal license to use IOS in such a configuration?

Either you're pirating, which we here cannot encourage, or you're paying Cisco so much money you should have just EBay'd a low-end router (e.g., 2600 series). Not to mention that Cisco doesn't currently sell such a thing, and if they haven't done it yet they probably aren't going to (believe me, they ARE into making money over there, and they wouldn't not offer something possibly profitable unless they thought that it was more profitable to not offer it!).
 
Okay, that is pointless. If, by some MIRACLE, you got a Cisco IOS to run (emulated) on an x86 box, it'd defy the point of using the Cisco IOS - reliability, performance.

Plus I don't think any Cisco routers use x86 processors - they are mostly Motorolla and the such.
 
Okay, that is pointless. If, by some MIRACLE, you got a Cisco IOS to run (emulated) on an x86 box, it'd defy the point of using the Cisco IOS - reliability, performance.
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Not really, VMWare performance is exceptionally good (I run Win2K in it on Linux sometimes) and I've never had it crash in all my years of using it.

Having said that, running IOS in VMWare would probably be best for testing configurations and debugging IOS. Imagine being able to have an infinite number of routers to test and infinite number of configurations with only a handfull of PCs running multiple instances of IOS in VMWare.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Okay, that is pointless. If, by some MIRACLE, you got a Cisco IOS to run (emulated) on an x86 box, it'd defy the point of using the Cisco IOS - reliability, performance.
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Not really, VMWare performance is exceptionally good (I run Win2K in it on Linux sometimes) and I've never had it crash in all my years of using it.

Having said that, running IOS in VMWare would probably be best for testing configurations and debugging IOS. Imagine being able to have an infinite number of routers to test and infinite number of configurations with only a handfull of PCs running multiple instances of IOS in VMWare.
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or run netsys software. It allows you to simulate a global network including 1000s of routers. Make changes and observer performance impact. Pretty cool really.
 
Nortel runs some gear on an x86 platofrm.
Namely there Contivity VPN600 box, it runs a Celeron cpu (think it is 700mhz)
 
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