Re: Virtualisable Firewalls

[Brett Eldridge <beldridg () best com>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Colin Horsington wrote:

> We would like high bandwidth (500Mbps packet inspection/proxying) but we
> would like to do this in one box if possible.
>
> To do this we would either need ATM interafces, or many-many ethernet
> interfaces. If it were to be ATM then we would have a
> incoming/outgoing IP interface (each having a seperate PVC/SPVC) and
> firewall on each set. Thus we have a 622Mbps ATM link out of our core
> network with many PVC's and firewall individual server farms/DSL
> customers.

the gig eth in - gig eth out w/ firewall policy dependent upon 802.1q tag
isn't available commercially...yet.

the other is. see cosine, springtide (lucent), and shasta (nortel).

- brett






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