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Subject: Re: ATM Firewalls
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat @ mcfeely . bsfs . org>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 21:56:48 -0400 (EDT)
To: John J McMahon <mcmahon @ tis . com>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <32513C32 . 13728473 @ tis . com>

I don't doubt this can be built, but I DO wonder how well the firewall was 
able to keep up with the load. Do you have any info on the performance?

TIA

-r.w.

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, John J McMahon wrote:

> Dr. Bill Hancock wrote:
> > (edited)
> > FYI, there were two refereed papers on high-speed firewalls
> > delivered at the April 1996 InterOP show in Las Vegas...
> 
> FYI -
> 
> The Firewall in the NOC at Interop Las Vegas and Atlanta
> this year was partially on ATM.  I can't speak for the Las
> Vegas design (I didn't build it), but the Atlanta design was
> a three interface system consisting of:
> 
> - 10 Mbps Ethernet    - Inside Interface 1
> - 155 Mbps ATM (LANE) - Inside Interface 2
> - 100 Mbps FDDI       - Outside Interface
> 
> The base system was a Sun SparcStation 20, running SunOS 4.1.4
> and TIS Gauntlet 3.1.1.  The FDDI and ATM boards came from
> Interphase.  
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> -- 
> John "FuzzFace" McMahon
> Gauntlet Internet Firewall Technical Support
> Support: gauntlet-support @
 trusted .
 com, 301-527-9555, 301-527-0482 (fax)


>     Pennsic XXV: Cry Havoc...  And let slip the golf carts of War...
> 
Is this a comment on the "new affluence" of SCA members in the 
information age?  :)

-r.w.



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