Re: Firewalls & multicast- what's the choice?

["Jim MacLeod" <jmacleod () gmail com>]

On 8/1/06, Carson Gaspar <carson () taltos org> wrote:
> The only firewall I know of that actually speaks multicast routing is the
> Juniper/Netscreen.

Nokias running Checkpoint also speak PIM.

> Checkpoint would be dead last - it's
> terrible at small packet high volume forwarding.

Packets for established sessions are forwarded in the kernel, so
there's not as much Checkpoint per-packet overhead as in days past.

-Jim
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