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From: jen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Switch level firewalls?
> Now that routing is moving to the switch level (layer 3 switching), are
> there also attempts at putting firewall features into switches? I'm
> thinking of firewalls to separate internal networks from each other, in
> addition to protecting from outside intruders. Sometimes it's not even
> a security issue in research labs ... we often just want to try weird
> things.
>
> Jen
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Jen,
Fore Systems has two really nice switches that provide wire-speed
firewalling via VLAN using Firewall-1.
ESX-2400
ESX-4800
This way you move the firewall ruleset to the LAN.
We are currently running a 2400 in our test lab and we are impressed so far.
Also, I believe ODS make something similar
Ben
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