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True Cost of Firewalling

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Kirkpatrick)
Fri Jun 12 14:01:22 1998

Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 13:58:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Kirkpatrick <bkirkpat@eli.net>
Reply-To: Ben Kirkpatrick <bkirkpat@eli.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu

   Has anyone done a good comparison recently of the packet
forwarding speeds of suns and ciscos?  Sure it seems easier
to front-end a sun and use it as a firewall, but how well
can a sun forward ip?

Thanks,

Ben Kirkpatrick
Data Engineering
ELI Corporate HQ
Third Floor
4400 NE 77th Avenue
Vancouver, WA  98662
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pager 888.997.8363


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