From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 6:31:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.undp.org (rock.undp.org [192.124.42.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8A037B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 06:31:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from belka.undp.org (belka.undp.org [192.124.42.51]) by relay2.undp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1/1.16) with ESMTP id fB5EVWA01622 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:31:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from belka.undp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by belka.undp.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fB5EVVo07116 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:31:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from inet02.hq.undp.org (strelka.undp.org [192.124.42.50]) by belka.undp.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) with ESMTP id fB5EVUl07110 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:31:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from undp.org ([127.0.0.1]) by inet02.hq.undp.org (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GNVKCI00.635 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:31:30 -0500 From: "Ugen Antsilevitch" To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <232ae42312c8.2312c8232ae4@undp.org> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 09:31:30 -0500 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: en Subject: Patent on firewall forwarding action X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been rummaging through uspto.gov listings and here is an interesting one: US 5,790,554 - given to Bay networks (no surprize) for the firewall forwarding action. Some related patents (listed as previous material) seem to touch on various other aspects of firewall technology. I think this predates our work here, doesn't it? I wonder if there is prior art for this.. Ideas? --Ugen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message