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>Date: Tue, 1 Oct 96 11:26:57 MDT
>From: woods @
ucar .
edu (Greg Woods)
>Subject: Re: ATM Firewalls
>
>> a three interface system consisting of:
>>
>> - 10 Mbps Ethernet - Inside Interface 1
>> - 155 Mbps ATM (LANE) - Inside Interface 2
>> - 100 Mbps FDDI - Outside Interface
>
>For most of us that I've heard use the term, this is not an "ATM
>firewall". Although I cannot speak for anyone else, I think that to
>call something like this an ATM firewall is deceptive. What *I* mean
>when I use that term is something that can act as a firewall while
>passing packets *at ATM speed*. While I would agree that something that
>can at least pass packets at or close to FDDI speed is worthy of note,
>this is not an "ATM firewall" by any reasonable definition.
>
>- --Greg
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Page 24 of the September 1996, Data Communications issue has
a blurb about some work done at the University of Kansas (Lawrence).
>From the article they are using TIS's FWTK on DEC Alphas with OC-3
interfaces. Forwarding rate is ~110Mbit/s.
Results of the U. Kansas test are also available at:
http:://www.tisl.ukans.edu/aai/reports/aai-perf/
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