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Subject: Re: What is a good Firewall?
From: Frederick M Avolio <avolio @ tis . com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 08:54:05 -0500
To: John Whittaker <john @ zoneoftrust . com>, Abe Singer <Abe . Singer @ integrators . com>
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3 . 0 . 32 . 19980325161408 . 006e04ac @ 199 . 107 . 168 . 8>

>actually the pix was originally designed from the ground up to be a
nat
>device with basic packet filtering capabilities, no statefull stuff
or
>proxies.  it is still weak on the application layer.  it is very
fast though.

A Cisco router with no filtering turned on at all is even faster.
Though it is still a little weak in the security area. :-)

f



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