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adapters purchased from a commodity supplier, saw an 80% increase in throughput as a result
of switching to Solarflare’s high performance Flareon adapters running SolarSecure™.

Much like the medieval castles of the past with layered defenses, multiple filter engines can be
created, each with a different configuration file, resulting in a multi-stage filter to protect your
server. Each stage can then be updated on-the-fly loading new configuration files as new
Internet marauders pop up, or you business need changes. So using all the above examples in
concert your server could defend itself from attacks originating from high-risk addresses, rate
limiting all remaining traffic to 1,000 packets per second, screening off any SYN flood traffic that
makes it past your perimeter, and finally dropping all port requests except those for port 80. This
demonstrates both the power, and flexibility of the filter engine technology. All of the above
samples are variations of those presented in the SolarSecure™ User’s Guide. This further
demonstrates the ease of use of the filter engine with regard to creating new filters.

About The Author
Scott Schweitzer is the Sales Manager of OEM, Federal, and Southeast for
Solarflare. He is technology entrepreneur with a strong background in both
hardware & software, combined with a unique talent for solution-based sales.
Scott joined Solarflare in August 2013 to manage the relationship with IBM –
while driving 10 & 40GbE sales into the federal sector, and the southeast. Prior
to that he spent eight years leading Myricom’s 10-Gigabit Ethernet sales team.

Scott can be reached online at ([email protected], @40gbe) and at our company
website http://www.solarflare.com/

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