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Network Dictionary – Pixen

7th May 2008 By 5 Comments

pixen – (picks-sen)

The correct term for a group of PIX firewalls. I have decided that the correct term is Pixen after banging my head on the desk for much of the day.

PIXen – derived from the term Vaxen The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers

Terms deprecated as a result of this advisory -

pixes just looks naff
pixies not usable in a corporate settings
pix The plural noun form just doesn’t work. For example: sheep is one sheep two sheep etc. Problem is the people don’t understand or comprehend that term in a sentence full of other jargon.

Consider: So if we drop the ASA into VLAN for the VPN head end at the top of DC SONA chain, migrate the ACL and config ready for the flip.

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  • John Coke

    In addition to PIXen, I’ve also been known to use the term boxen.

  • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

    Also a favourite of mine, however, this term is mostly pwned by Unix people and (by my very ruf’n'reddy rules) not suitable for the Network Dictionary. Suggestions always welcome.

    See below:

    boxen: /bok-sn/, pl.n.

    [very common; by analogy with VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the phrase ëUnix boxení, used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation is that any two Unix boxen are interchangeable.

    http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/B/boxen.html

  • http://globalconfig.net Brandon Carroll

    I love it. How about a group of ASA’s?

    Regards,

    Brandon

  • Ed

    What about pixii (pronounced pix-eye)?
    Or maybe just say, “A plethora of pix”?

    • http://etherealmind.com Greg Ferro

      i thought about that but it doesn’t have gravitas like Pixen – it sounds better