Re[2]: Two things about new firewalls etc.

[dnewman () data com]

I've tested the Ipsilon stuff. Whatever firewall functions it does are 
CPU-based. I believe the same is true for the Bay, 3Com, and Xylan 
products--there's a CPU next to the ASIC that does traffic analysis.

It may be early days here--these folks are just now coming out with routing in 
silicon and it may be a while before they get to security analysis. More details
at http://www.data.com/lab_tests/beginning.html

David Newman
Data Communications magazine


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Subject: Re: Two things about new firewalls etc. 
Author:  Jyri Kaljundi <jk () stallion ee>  at dcm_smtp
Date:    12/4/97 5:22 PM


On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 dnewman () data com wrote:

> Are any security vendors looking to embed firewall code in silicon?

I have no personal experiences with it, but I have heard some pretty good 
things about the Ipsilon (www.ipsilon.com) IP400 device, that has fully 
functional FireWall-1 embedded in it (some other hardware routers and 
switches like Bay Networks, 3Com, Xylan have been running limited sets of 
FW-1 software for some time already).  From management point of view it 
should be much easier to administer than a Solaris box, and I would 
believe it might be much faster than similar price Unix machine.

Jyri Kaljundi
jk () stallion ee
AS Stallion Ltd
http://www.stallion.ee/