Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC
Paul Taylor
paul at kcnetcare.com
Thu May 13 00:16:14 CDT 2004
They have had IPSec on PCI card for awhile.
http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/products/pro100s_srvr_adapter.htm
At work we buy these when we buy Windows based boxes.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at kclug.org [mailto:owner-kclug at kclug.org] On Behalf Of
Gerald Combs
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 5:36 PM
To: Brian Kelsay
Cc: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC
This sounds more like a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) rather than a built-in
router. These have been available on high-end Ethernet NICs for several
years (since the early 100 Mbps days at least), and have appeared more
recently on iSCSI controllers. Once you're processing TCP on a NIC it's a
pretty short hop to add access controls. I wonder if they'll add IPsec
and/or SSL/TLS at some point.
Brian Kelsay wrote:
> There have been other routers on PCI cards before, but this is a hardware
firewall built-in to a desktop PC motherboard. Basically another chip that
rides on the NIC chip.
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> Brian Kelsay
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>>>>David Nicol <> 05/12/04 03:58PM >>>
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> a router on a card. Brilliant.
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