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Subject: Re: Screend ports (other than ULTRIX and BSD/386)?
From: Steve Kennedy <steve @ gbnet . org>
Date: Sun, 8 May 1994 22:46:38 +0000 (GMT)
To: eng . sun . com!Geoffrey . Mulligan @ gbnet . org
Cc: greatcircle . com!brent @ gbnet . org, future . eng . sun . com!mulligan @ gbnet . org, arnold . com!Stephen . L . Arnold @ gbnet . org, greatcircle . com!Firewalls @ gbnet . org
In-reply-to: <9405081518 . AA13110 @ jurassic . Eng . Sun . COM> from "Geoff Mulligan" at May 8, 94 08:18:18 am

Geoff,

> First not all Internet connections are T1; some folks have faster lines.
> Second, not all firewalls are built between the Internet and an internal
> network; firewalls can and are being used to separate internal networks.
> Is screend running on a 486 "fast enough" to keep up at ethernet speed?
> How about faster than a T1?

A KarlBridge will do around 9500 packets/second (and the lastest version
SHOULD support wire-speed r.s.n).

By the time you have put a system together to run screend - the KB solution
should sound reasonable.

Contact sales @
 karlnet .
 com or sales @
 gbnet .
 com for sales info or
nisca.acs.ohio-state.edu:/pub/kbridge for a demo version.

Regards

Steve

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