wouldnt a cisco 7500 series in the proper config and/or cisco
lightswitches handle atm firewalling?
logically it should...
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Greg Woods wrote:
> > Is there any FW that can handle ATM traffic as shown below:
>
> I presume you mean "at ATM speed". You could get a Sun Enterprise 3000
> system, install a couple of cisco ATM cards, and install the TIS toolkit,
> and you'd have a firewall that looks like your diagram. Whether that
> meets your needs is another story; it's unlikely traffic could flow
> through such a firewall at full ATM speed.
>
> My understanding (which I have not personally verified) is that there
> are ATM switching devices that can be used to control where ATM circuits
> can and cannot be set up, but that would provide protection on at best
> a per host or per site basis; no way to control which services on the
> target machine can be accessed once the circuit is in place.
>
> There is a paper describing research in progress on ATM firewalls.
> You can find it at
>
> http://www.network.com/~hughes/Interop-eng96-1.0.ps
>
> --Greg
>
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