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Subject: Re: Hardware requirements of Firewall-1
From: security @ qualix . com (Nik I. Knoth)
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 19:26:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: baysalc @ boun . edu . tr (Can BAYSAL)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine . A32 . 3 . 91 . 960630150411 . 15454A-100000 @ hamlin . cc . boun . edu . tr> from "Can BAYSAL" at Jun 30, 96 03:08:07 pm

It does, in fact, work on an IPX.  I have a customer
who is protecting his internal net with FW-1 on a
sparc IPX...

To answer yours, yes a sparc 5 would prob be quite
sufficient.  CP's FW-1 is not terribly resource-
intensive.

-nik
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> 
> 	Hi there;
> 	I wonder what is the REAL minimum required configuration of 
> Firewall-1. The book says that Sun SPARC based system, I do not think 
> this means IPX :) , does it? For example on a 10 Mbits ethernet would a 
> Sparc 5 be acceptable?
> 
> 	Thanks;
> 	Can Baysal
> 


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