Re: are firewalls limited to only protecting ehternet connections?

[JSK <jsk347 () sprynet com>]

Wow...there's a new one for the list!  The closest thing I have heard of to
those kinds of speeds (and no where near HIPPI) is ATM firewalls running at
OC-3 with at least a promise of going to OC-12 'someday'.  You could check out
Network Systems Group of StorageTek (ATLAS ATM Firewall) and then talk to them
to see if they have that on the drawing board or not.  I'd be real curious to
know the answer too if anyone cares to post on this issue.  Thanks,

Steve Kruse
Secure Computing Corp.
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R. DuFresne wrote:

> Howdy folks,
>
> Here's the question and concern.  High bandwidth pipes, newer ones, we're
> talking HIPPI pipes.  Are there any firewall implentations that can manage
> such a connection?  Or is this too BIG a pipe and perhaps too new, and so
> not available in existing implementations?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
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