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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by mcpherrinm on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:49AM (#18191028)
Modern network ASICs are highly-programmable devices. So you can implement a lot of magic on the same hardware as competitors.

It's really not one way or the other, but the software and hardware working together that's important.

[disclaimer: I am a former Arista employee. I did some of the "light" Fedora modifications.]

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Re:Multiple Severe Vulnerabilities Reported in Juniper Netwo... by SEJeff on Thursday October 11, 2018 @09:31AM (#18193347)
Did I get it wrong? One thing we found interesting is that we could run unmodified software directly on the switches so long as we built it for the AMD Athlons running on them.
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