Goodbye software firewall on your desktop PC

[Leo J Mauler]

Wow, an onboard firewall.  Kinda reminds me of Intel putting those serial
numbers on their CPUs.

On Tue, 11 May 2004 08:35:29 -0500 "Brian Kelsay" <BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov>
writes:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/11/nvidia_nforce_update/
> 
> Quote from story:
> The new chipset, the nForce 2 Ultra 400Gb, now features its own, 
> on-board Gigabit Ethernet port, which Nvidia claims yields 200 per 
> cent more network bandwidth than a Gigabit board hooked up to a PCI 
> bus can manage.
> 
> Nvidia's big pitch, however, is the security component, which is 
> claims is "the industry's first and only hardware-optimised firewall 
> solution". Nvidia Firewall software hooks into the chipset's TCP/IP 
> packet processing ability, and has been certified by security 
> specialist ICSA Labs, the company said. Incoming packets can be 
> analysed 'at source' to check whether they should be allowed into 
> the computer. That, argues Nvidia, not only improves performance - 
> the host CPU is freed from the task of running a software-only 
> firewall - but enhances the degree of protection offered.
> 
> Brian Kelsay
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