Network Dictionary — Pixen
May 7, 2008 by Greg Ferro · 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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In addition to PIXen, I’ve also been known to use the term boxen.
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 ‘Unix boxen’, 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
I love it. How about a group of ASA’s?
Regards,
Brandon
What about pixii (pronounced pix-eye)?
Or maybe just say, “A plethora of pix”?
i thought about that but it doesn’t have gravitas like Pixen — it sounds better