Re: Consine FW

[David Lang <david.lang () digitalinsight com>]

although as fast as computers are today the speed you can get from proxies
may very well be sufficiant, in most cases a fairly beefy box will make it
so that your communications lines are your bottleneck, not the firewall
(obviously does not apply to gig ethernet, but definantly does apply up to
multiple DS-3's)

David Lang



 On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Nimesh Vakharia wrote:

> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 11:44:37 -0500 (EST)
> From: Nimesh Vakharia <nvakhari () clio rad sunysb edu>
> To: Bill_Royds () pch gc ca
> Cc: firewall-wizards () nfr com
> Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] Consine FW
>
> agreed, the proxy's inherent behaviour to establish the connection itself
> is why it does not require it to be stateful which is why it castes a
> doubt on performance capabilities at high speeds and is less than ideal
> for a hosting environment.
>
>  On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 Bill_Royds () pch gc ca wrote:
>
> > An Application proxy firewall does not need stateful inspection. Stateful
> > inspection is a method for packet filtering firewalls to carry information
> > about TCP and UDP conversations to ensure that they are consistent. An
> > application proxy does this inherently so it does not need a state table
> > for the conversation.
> >
> >
> > Bill Royds
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Nimesh Vakharia <nvakhari () clio rad sunysb edu>
> > 11/07/01 04:08 PM
> >
> >
> >         To:     firewall-wizards () nfr com
> >         cc:
> >         Subject:        [fw-wiz] Cosine FW
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We are looking at a bunch of highend firewall and VPN options and  consine
> > seems to be an interesting one. But someone told me that currently
> > consine does not have a stateful firewall? Is that true. I was told they
> > can support packet filtering and applcation proxy only...
> >
> >
> >
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