Re: Switch level firewalls?

["Ben Keepper" <bkeepper@home.com>]

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From: jen <Jen@DangerousIdeas.com>
To: <firewalls@lists.gnac.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Switch level firewalls?


> Now that routing is moving to the switch level (layer 3 switching), are
> there also attempts at putting firewall features into switches?  I'm
> thinking of firewalls to separate internal networks from each other, in
> addition to protecting from outside intruders.  Sometimes it's not even
> a security issue in research labs ... we often just want to try weird
> things.
>
> Jen
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Jen,

Fore Systems has two really nice switches that provide wire-speed
firewalling via VLAN using Firewall-1.

ESX-2400
ESX-4800

This way you move the firewall ruleset to the LAN.
We are currently running a 2400 in our test lab and we are impressed so far.

Also, I believe ODS make something similar

Ben

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