Tag: repurpose

  • Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer!

    Revive a Cisco IDS into a capable OpenBSD computer!

    Even though Cisco equipment is very capable, it tends to become End-of-Life before you can say “planned obsolescence”. Websites become bigger, bandwidths increase, and as a side effect of those “improvements”, routers, firewalls, and in this case, intrusion prevention systems get old quicker and quicker. Apparently, this was also the case for the Cisco IDS-4215…