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by p_l 2219 days ago
IOS-XE is essentially IOS Classic running as an application on top of Linux, communicating with the actual forwarding hardware. NX-OS is similar but without legacy of having been a standalone OS. Linux generally stays away from all networking work and just provides a nicer deployment target with nicer APIs than bare bones MIPS/PPC/x86