I'd be interested in hearing issues with using quad cards on NT, too. I've
never actually used a quad card, but we're finding ourselves in a situation
where it'd be good to have policies apply to several subnets. Not sure what
it'll do to performance ... If only Extreme Networks integrated firewall
features into their switches ...
Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: Corbett Waddingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 4:20 PM
Subject: quad cards on firewalls
>
> 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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