* Greg Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-17 19:31]: > On 17 Mar 2005 03:58:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henning Brauer) wrote: > > > >> All of that said, I wonder if there isn't some way to implement > >> something vaguely PF-ish in an FPGA that would allow more control over > >> the rulesets than an off-the-shelf ASIC. > > > >there likely is... > >I mean, state table and state table lookups in hardware, hand off > >ruleset processing to the main CPU, that would rock. If done right. > > Be interesting to see if that was possible using commodity offload hardware > such as that found in > > http://www.nvidia.com/object/feature_activearmor.html
well that is just marketing bullshit as far as i can tell -- Henning Brauer, BS Web Services, http://bsws.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)
