RE: Inside PIX?

[Steve Sutherland <stephen.b.sutherland () cpmx saic com>]

I haven't heard of NetScreen, but I am always wary of outrageous claims made at InterOp by new vendors. Anyone remember 
RadioLAN?

-----Original Message-----
From:   Adam Shostack [SMTP:adam () homeport org]
Sent:   Sunday, May 17, 1998 12:21 AM
To:     aschlies () citynet net
Cc:     firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject:        Re: Inside PIX?

        Just an FYI, at interop there was a startup called NetScreen
with a box they claimed could do wire speed packet filtering at 100mbs
on custom hardware.  (Spec sheet says "100 mpbs wire speed, any packet
size, with simultaenous advanced firewall rules (200 rules) and VPN
encryption (IPSEC).)

        I'd be very interested to hear about any experiences with
this; they seem to be pushing the enevelope of whats available as an
appliance.  (Sub-$10k for the 100mbs box, sub 5 for a 10megabit
system)

Adam


Tony Schliesser wrote:
| Every  firewall appliance product I have seen uses PC hardware
| (usually P5 200).
| 
| Nothing wrong with it -- and I guess expected.
| 
| Tony
| -----Original Message-----
| From: ark () eltex spb ru <ark () eltex spb ru>
| To: firewall-wizards () nfr net <firewall-wizards () nfr net>
| Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 12:18 AM
| Subject: Inside PIX?
| 
| There was a posting in relcom.comp.security some days ago: one man
| told he opened the PIX box and guess what was inside? Yep, you are
| right. The generic chinese PC motherboard with Pentium CPU.
| Not just some Pentium-based piece of hardware, but _PC_ motherboard.
| IDE controller and some other things were removed but..
| 
| 
| 


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