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> Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:41:09 -0400 > From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]> > [...] > BTW, I would suggest that for a variety of applications, hardware > assisted filtering boxes that simply take in IP one end and put out > processed IP on the other end would be of use -- not just for this, > but also for helping in doing packet traces through high traffic > areas, for implementing firewalls, and for all sorts of other > things. Vendors, are you listening? > [...] Network Systems has a box which does this for IP over ATM packets. I believe that it runs at full OC-3c (155 Mbps) speed. It also potentially does a bunch of other stuff to the IP packets. It might make an interesting NANOG presentation, if it hasn't been done already. -tjs - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |