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Re: High Speed Firewalls
From: Bruce Byrd <byrd () home com>
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 20:55:50 -0800
Please excuse the vendor plug but this thread was too close to what we've developed to pass up...
RapidStream (www.rapidstream.com) will be announcing high-performance security appliances starting in April. We are looking for good beta sites to test our Gigabit and 100 Mbps Ethernet appliances. If you're interested, send me an email.
Bruce At 10:24 AM 3/3/00 -0800, Ryan McBride wrote:
Lucent has a brand new product called the "Access Point 1000" which is a router/firewall/vpn solution, and claims to move data at speeds up to 450 Mb/s (155Mb/s 3DES) -Ryan Henry Baez wrote: > > I am doing research on very high speed firewalls. I mean firewalls that > are right now available that could handle OC3 and higher speeds via Gig > Byte Etherenet cards. In searching the recent posting of this list and > a lot of general web searching, I have found only one firewall that > claims they can do so. It is call POTUS from a company called Livermore > Software Laboratories. I would very much like to find at lease another > vendor which at lease matches the claim of PORTUS, 300 MB plus through > put. Management, bless them, likes to have choices, I would like to > present more then one vendor if possiable. > > I have experiences with two commercial firewalls, Checkpoint and > Gauntlet, and one freeware firewall, Ipfilter. But the links where way > under 10 Meg Byte. None of the firewalls I have work on 'claim' the > speeds I am looking for. All the magazines 'test/reviews' I have looked > at top out at about 150 Meg. Byte. The number of users for this project > would not be large, but each one would be moving Gig Byte size files > across the world. -- Ryan McBride - mcbride () countersiege com Systems Security Consultant Countersiege Systems Corporation - http://www.countersiege.com
Current thread:
- High Speed Firewalls Henry Baez (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Darren Reed (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bill Pennington (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Ryan McBride (Mar 05)
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- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bruce Byrd (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Bennett Todd (Mar 01)
- PORTUS (was Re: High Speed Firewalls) Josef Pojsl (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Rick Murphy (Mar 02)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Dippold, John (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Robert Graham (Mar 01)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls ddhumphr (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Carric Dooley (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls ddhumphr (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Henry Baez (Mar 01)
- RE: High Speed Firewalls Deane, James (Mar 02)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 03)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls Johann G. Hautzinger (Mar 06)
- Re: High Speed Firewalls woody weaver (Mar 03)