Yes,
There are actually a few switch vendors with embedded firewalls.
Xylan has embedded CheckPoint Firewall-1 in to their switch.
The Xylan product practically carries all the same firewall capabilities as
Firewall-1 on a Sun Sparc running Solaris.
Fore Systems has a Gigabit speed switch with CheckPoint Firewall-1 as well.
The Fore systems switch offers up to 20 Gbps of switching, routing,
firewalling.
( This switch will perform at these speeds without NAT. Currently there are
no NAT implementation's that
will support Gigabit speeds to my knowledge.)
This is just an example of some vendors and there product.
Jason Adamson
EDS Systemhouse Inc.
Firewall Engineering & Integration
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> Subject: Switch level firewalls?
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> 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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