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Re: is the ASA a true hardware solution?
From: Dave Brockman <dave () brockmans com>
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 19:10:22 -0400
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/5/2011 1:11 PM, Greg Whynott wrote:
in the context of the never ending debates related to software/hardware firewalls... i was looking inside of our newest 5580, it appears to be a standard HP server box (DL585) with a hardware encryption accelerator option card inserted into a pci slot. everything else appears to be verbatim to what you would receive from HP if you ordered their high end x86 server box. should one not have any sort of encryption needs, would this box considered a software firewall? I couldn't find one custom asic, module or other chip with a cisco brand stamp on it, beyond the flash. thanks! -g
ASA devices are software firewalls w/ hardware accelerated encryption. It also uses Linux and virtualization, although I'm not well versed in the specifics, but I believe a search on Google should lend more. Regards, dtb -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3Ef94ACgkQABP1RO+tr2TdewCcDSN7qHiKNpZVx6zyQuZjQxcK SuwAn0FsQRPcgkJjcjQT+u0Uqb8o2JeV =L6W/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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