Re: [fw-wiz] Proverbial appliance "Its software, Jim!"

From: Marcus J. Ranum (mjr@ranum.com)
Date: 10/26/02 

To: Mike Frantzen <frantzen@w4g.org>, Anton Aylward <aja@si.on.ca>
From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr@ranum.com>
Date: Sat Oct 26 19:39:40 2002

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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