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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by Yizahi on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:09AM (#17218843)
I wager there are some small python/bash/perl etc. scripts in use in Cisco firmware, tomorrow headlines - "World runs on Bash! Apocalypse is nigh!"
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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by technion on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:57AM (#17219132)
Versions of IOS had embedded scripting available via TCL. It's likely that's the language used internally too.
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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by jwbensley on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:16AM (#17219366)
Yeah, if you drop in a Linux shell on their various platforms you can find shell scripts dotted around. The boxes run Linux so that isn't surprising really.
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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by topranks on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:27PM (#17223436)
Linux runs the control plane.

The programmed routes go into hardware on the bigger systems, and either way there is no Linux kernel routing involved at all.

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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by jwbensley on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:34AM (#17225403)
I didn't say that Linux was involed in the forwarding plane or any routing. I was responding to Yihazi's comment that shell scripts are likely in use somewhere. This entire thread is in relation to the control-plane as that is where Cisco use Erlang. Scroll up much?

Edit: If I'm not mistaken I think Linux is actually used in some platforms for routing the out of band management interface, but not transit traffic.

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Re:Cisco says 90% of internet traffic goes through Erlang-co... by paulie_a on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:15AM (#17218857)
Cisco gear has enough problems regardless of programming language. They could start with not hard coding passwords. I will never trust them again.
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