Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC

[Gerald Combs]

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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