[Linux-ATM-General] ethernet to atm bridging

[<an...@me...>]

Hello all, the group I work for has an incoming 34MB/s circuit from BT 
which is used to terminate a private adsl provision on. Currently it uses 
BT's IPstream product. Another circuit is about to be ordered but this one 
will be used for external users to access different networks, again all 
private. It has been proposed by the guys who run this to use a checkpoint 
firewall with several discreet ethernet ports to seperate out the external 
users by ipaddress and direct the traffic to the appropiate internal 
network.
I think a better way is to use DataStream and provide several 1483 
terminations, one for each network needed. If I have a 155MB/s atm card in 
a linux server with a multiport ethernet card(s), can I bridge each 1483 
circuit to an individual ethernet interface without any risk of data 
"leaking" from one network to another?
This would certianly be a cheaper option than the firewall and I think 
more secure.

Regards,
Andrew Stringer


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