On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Masataka Ohta wrote:
As for the performance issue, can someone give me a pointer to *INEXPENSIVE* NAT box which can operate at 100Mbps, or better, 1Gbps?
Inexpensive can be a pretty loose term.
I was asked by ISPs which are beginning to offer 100Mbps Ethernet service to subscribers.
They probably have a little cash then...
My guess is that there is none.
This product, while primarily a firewall, demonstrates that doing NAT and firewalling (lots of shared code there, see IPFilter) on an ASIC makes for a much cheaper solution than FW-1 on a big Sun Ultra-something... Anyhow they claim lots of sessions: http://www2.netscreen.com/pub/products/ns1000.html I'm sure there are others riding this bandwagon as well... Charles
Masataka Ohta