Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: SYN floods (was: does history repeat itself?) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 14:41:09 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> [...] 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