On 16 Mar 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote:

> 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.

To a point, yes...it really does depend on the hardware in question.



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