[7969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Firewall in Routers??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Knight)
Mon Mar 3 17:47:23 1997
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 16:57:59 -0500
From: Paul Knight <pknight@BayNetworks.COM>
To: nanog@MERIT.EDU
Hmm, yes.
At least one router vendor (with sufficient processing power) is doing
this... Here is a pointer to some basic info on Bay Networks'
implementation, dating from last September.
http://www.baynetworks.com/Products/Briefs/baysecrs.html
Tim Crowell wrote:
>
> With all of the recent attacks against ISP services, has anybody
> considered implementing Checkpoint Firewalls into the CISCO 7513s to
> front end all traffic from the Internet?
>
> Although in theory this sounds feasible from a security standpoint I'm
> not sure I am comfortable with the processing power that would be
> required and having anything looking at every packet. It seems that
> this would introduce a significant latency into the routing of the
> traffic (which is the function of a router or at least it used to be). I
> prefer to let my routers route.
>
> Interested in any and all ideas on the subject.
>
> --
> Tim Crowell - GTE Intelligent Network Services
> tcrowell@gte.net Voice: 214.751.3881
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