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Subject: Re: High speed throughput firewalls...
From: Adam Safier <asafier @ explorer . csc . com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 19:15 EDT
To: johns @ oxygen . house . gov (John Schnizlein)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . com, pokey @ maddie . atlantic . com

At 08:54 AM 4/10/96 -0400, John Schnizlein wrote:
>> Has anyone ever tried to firewall two networks that are connected via
>> highspeed networks such as FDDI?  What type of firewall did you use?
>> Did you notice bottlenecking, etc?   I'm looking for hard facts, not
>> sales pitches...
>

I've only heard the tale of some firewall vendors setting up a bunch of
their firewalls in parallel to handle very large / fast firewalling needs.
One Authentication server external to the firewall boxes makes for manageble
authentication maintenance.



Adam Safier
CSC-SED-Infosec
asafier @
 csc .
 com

"If you show me yours, I still won't show you mine."

Expressed opinions are my own and might not be shared by my employer or
anyone else.


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