[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] RE: [FW1] why not a bridge?
Soem thoughts.... have never seen the sun firewall.... a bridge in its purest sense,works at the ethernet address level, just a glorified repeater with some knowledge as to what segment a MAC address is on. This makes the segements and the bridge vulnerable to broadcast storms for one thing. This reduces usable bandwidth. One would also assume DOS potential. Now a firewall that acts as a bridge could probably handle that... dunno... I think it is more that as the focus on TCP/IP over the past 10 years has increased, the use of other protocols and more importantly, non routable protocols such as dlc and netbios/netbeui usage has decreased to the extent there is not a big market. Sorta VHS vs Beta, the market and the marketers chose the winner. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 26 January 2001 10:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [FW1] why not a bridge? Can anyone explain why Sun is the only company that seems to produce a firewall that runs as a bridge? I can't see why this isn't a more common practise. -- --Paul *************************************************** This e-mail is not an official statement of the Waikato Regional Council unless otherwise stated. Visit our website http://www.ew.govt.nz *************************************************** ================================================================================ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================================================
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