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Re: Firewalling With Redhat 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Nov 14 10:59:46 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:22:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Stephen Zedalis wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Erik Troan wrote:
>
> > We use 4.0 boxes for our firewall and two internal routers. I'm not sure
> > what you mean by a switch though...
>
> Ethernet switch, I wouldn't want to try to use linux to do THAT.
> Ethernet switches are best done in silicon not software.
Ahhh, okay...
Linux can do ethernet bridging now (which is very similiar to a switched
hub). I wouldn't use it that way though, as it requires putting interfaces
into promiscuous mode which is a performance drain.
Erik
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