It was good to see that the Fortinet appliances turned out to be Linux
under the hood, and that the Fortinet people came clean, and have changed
their license to include the GPL.
I suspect there are other 'appliances' which are really just linux.
Take these BlueCoat proxy appliances for instance.
http://www.bluecoat.com/products/sg400/features.html
It basically looks like a linuxy system, with a HTTP and SOCKS
proxy on it, all configured through a friendly web interface.
There's also a SSH command line interface in to it.
I wouldn't be suprised if it's running Linux.
The manual to the command line OS is here:
http://download.bluecoat.com/manuals/SGOS/SGOS_CLI_Guide_2-1-09.pdf
No unix commands, but the firewall looks to be using libpcap at least.
Anyone ever used one of these appliances?
Anyone like to hazard a guess as to what OS it's running?
Paul
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