Re: Proverbial appliance "Its software, Jim!"

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>]

Mike Frantzen wrote:
> Packet filtering, even stateful packet filtering is pretty easy
> to do in hardware.  Unless you're a big fish, you'd probabley do it in
> an FPGA as opposed to an ASIC.

Heya, Mike! :)

What does the 'P' in "FPGA" stand for?

mjr.

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Marcus J. Ranum                         http://www.ranum.com
Computer and Communications Security    mjr () ranum com

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