On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:33:02 +0000, Ryan McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:50:23PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > > Could Someone please tell me the advantages of PF against Firewalls > > using the ASIC technology in terms of Security and perfomance?? > > If there is a bug in pf, we'll tell you, and you can apply a patch. > > If there is a bug in your ASIC, and the vendor tells you at all, there > are two options: go back to doing the packet processing in the > underpowered CPU, or replace the hardware. >
Thankyou so much Ryan for replying to this message and thankyou so much for al your efforts on this project :))) I saw this http://www.juniper.net/support/security/alerts/screenos-sshv1-2.txt so there they provide a way to upgrade the OS withou replacing the firewall. mainly I put this post because of this "new news" being spread around that ASIC firewalls can have good perfomance where firewalls like PF fails when there is heavy traffic. It made me wonder whether the perfomance of ASIC firewalls were brought about at the cost of some security? thank you so much once again for the reply :))) kind regards Siju
