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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2002
Peter M. Rigstad, Holladay, UT (US);
John Y. Yoon, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Mark Farahar, Les Granges le Roi, FR;
Barani Subbiah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brant D. Thomsen, Sandy, UT (US);
David E. Richmond, Kearns, UT (US);
Vered Maor Semel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Earl Bryner, Clinton, UT (US);
Peter M. Rigstad, Holladay, UT (US);
John Y. Yoon, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Mark Farahar, Les Granges le Roi, FR;
Barani Subbiah, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Brant D. Thomsen, Sandy, UT (US);
David E. Richmond, Kearns, UT (US);
Vered Maor Semel, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Earl Bryner, Clinton, UT (US);
3Com Corporation, Marlborough, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for providing security in a computing network. The system has a server for distributing policies to be implemented by firewall devices in the network. The firewall devices provide hardware implemented firewalls to communication devices making network connections. The system has logic to allow a connection to be made to the network via a communication device at a node provided the firewall device is at that node. Therefore, the firewall device must be in the system for a connection to be established via the communication device. Additionally, the system is configured to cause data transferred by the communication device to be processed by the firewall.