On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 14:27, Mike Burger wrote: > On 16 Mar 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Doesn't really change my point. There's only so much bandwidth > > available to the PCI bus. The PC architecture isn't going to process an > > infinite number of packets. Your very expensive switches have > > backplanes that can transfer gigabits of data per second. > > Your very expensive switches, however configurable they may be, though, > are not firewalls...stateful or otherwise.
Switches/routers/firewalls... Their hardware is more specialized, and geared toward throughput. > In all honesty, aren't all firewalls truly some sort of computer with > multiple NICs and a program that interprets and rejects or allows traffic > to pass? Yep.
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