[31129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Sprickman)
Tue Sep 12 13:38:49 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: batz <batsy@vapour.net>, "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> As for the performance issue, can someone give me a pointer
> to *INEXPENSIVE* NAT box which can operate at 100Mbps, or better,
> 1Gbps?
Inexpensive can be a pretty loose term.
> I was asked by ISPs which are beginning to offer 100Mbps Ethernet service
> to subscribers.
They probably have a little cash then...
> My guess is that there is none.
This product, while primarily a firewall, demonstrates that doing NAT and
firewalling (lots of shared code there, see IPFilter) on an ASIC makes for
a much cheaper solution than FW-1 on a big Sun Ultra-something...
Anyhow they claim lots of sessions:
http://www2.netscreen.com/pub/products/ns1000.html
I'm sure there are others riding this bandwagon as well...
Charles
> Masataka Ohta
>
