Re: Switching between FW Segs Still a NOT?

["Ryan Russell" <ryanr () sybase com>]

Those look like policy-based routing, circuit-level
firewalls, or QoS swithes depending what they do.

It's another marketing term that isn't clear enough.
I'd have to play with an actual product to see if I
liked it for security applications or not.

                         Ryan







Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov> on 10/30/98 08:11:07 AM

To:   Ryan Russell/SYBASE
cc:   tell_me_elm () hotmail com, firewall-wizards () nfr net
Subject:  Re: Switching between FW Segs Still a NOT?




> I work with Cisco Catalysts.   With an out-of-the box config,
> I know of about 4 ways to get between VLANs without involving
> a seperate layer-3 device.  There have been a few bugs
> with the Cats that let you push code onto them via a login prompt.

What about with level-4 switches?