I don't see a problem with it.
I've implemented the configuration you are describing.
Make sure you configure the qfe card to give each
port a unique MAC address. By default each port
has the same MAC. This can wreak some havoc on switches.
-Art
At 04:20 PM 8/23/99 -0700, Corbett Waddingham wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>Recently, the subject of using quad ethernet cards on firewalls was
brought up
>here at work. One person was convinced that this is a Bad Thing(c), because
>someone could compromise the card and get access to the entire network.
>Everyone else (myself included) felt that he was just being overly paranoid,
>and that just keeping the subnets logically seperated would be fine. But I
>thought I would ask the people who be most likely to know.
>
>The card in this case was a Sun Quad Fast Ethernet, the firewall itself was
>an UltraSPARC with Solaris 2.6 and Checkpoint.
>
>
>Corbett Waddingham
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