Firewalls: How secure is Ascend?s Secure Access Firewall

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Subject:	How secure is Ascend?s Secure Access Firewall
From:	Rene Campbell <renec @ futurus . com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 1996 09:48:18 -0400
To:	firewalls-digest @ GreatCircle . COM

	Ascend has recently come out with a really effective firewall which is a
software option for many of their routers.  From the marketing spec, it
looks like a modified approach on a packet filtering technology and it's
clearly states that is not proxy based.  Any thoughts on how secure it may be?

Rene

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