Martin,
I never used this product , just know about it from marketing
stuff/technical white papers , but may be you would like to take a look at
http://www.cabletron.com/smartswitch-router/
where you can find pointers to the whole product line and look for the one
that best fit your needs.
They do wire-speed layer 2/3/4 switching , IP/IPX routing ,and also have
support for WAN connections.
I hope this helps.
Regards,
PL Steinbruch
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Brenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Martin Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Firewalls Digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 6:50 AM
Subject: Re: Firewalling non-IP protocols
> Martin Davies wrote:
> >
> > A client of mine has a need to install a firewall between his network
> > and a client network that will pass both IPX and DecNET in addition to
> > the more normal IP-based protocols. I don't want to have to put separate
> > products for each protocol in parallel, so does anyone know of a product
> > that will provide firewall protection for all three protocols?
>
> Yuck...
> Your only option that I can think of is a Cisco router. This will allow
> you to do static packet filtering (dynamic for TCP) for both IP and IPX.
> The killer is that you want to add DecNET to the mix. If memory servers,
> this protocol has no layer 3 component so it must be bridged. With this
> in mind most filtering devices will not be able to handle it. With a
> Cisco, you could bridge just the DecNET traffic and *maybe* do something
> with the Ethernet Type codes or MAC address access list filtering. I've
> personally never tried to apply these ACL's in bridge mode. Not sure if
> it will work.
>
> There used to be a product called CarlBridge or something similar. This
> may do the trick as well but I have not heard or see it in quite some
> time.
>
> Good luck!
> Chris
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