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Subject: Re: Token Ring Firewalls?
From: chk @ psa . pencom . com (Christian Kuhtz)
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 14:43:57 -0500 (CDT)
To: njs @ scifi . maid . com (Nick Simicich)
Cc: scott @ Disclosure . COM, jrosansk @ ferc . fed . us, Firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <Pine . 3 . 89 . 9509211124 . G7157-0100000 @ scifi . maid . com> from "Nick Simicich" at Sep 21, 95 11:41:28 am

> > Unless someone has come out with one over the last two-to-three months,
> > there are only ethernet-based firewall solutions.  This shows Unix'es
> > biggotry towards ethernet :-)  (please, no flames!  There are legitamate
> > reasons for using token ring)
> 
> 
> Um, I would suspect that IBM's NetSP firewall product would support Token 
> Ring, since it runs on AIX.

It supports whatever goddam medium you want to use :), as long as it is 
supported by AIX. So, everything from serial wires to ATM (the latter I haven't
had a chance to test yet, 16MBit/s T/R or FDDI was sufficient so far :).

Best Regards,
Chris

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