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Subject:    Re: [fw-wiz] Proverbial appliance "Its software, Jim!"
From:       "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum ! com>
Date:       2002-10-26 17:33:01
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Mike Frantzen wrote:
>Packet filtering, even stateful packet filtering is pretty easy
>to do in hardware.  Unless you're a big fish, you'd probabley do it in
>an FPGA as opposed to an ASIC.

Heya, Mike! :)

What does the 'P' in "FPGA" stand for?

mjr.

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