Linux and firewall load balancing

["Keith T. Morgan" <keith.morgan () terradon com>]

For some time, I've been considering writing a daemon to synchronize Linux state tables and firewall rulesets, and a 
bunch of other stuff to create a firewall load-balancing solution for Linux.  However, I don't want to re-invent the 
wheel.  Is anyone aware of a good open source HA/Load-balancing solution for Linux?  IMO, this is one of the biggest 
features that separates Linux from the big commercial firewall vendors at the mid and high end.

We're able to make Linux do 90-95% of the stuff the big commercial vendors can do, but we can't offer an open-source 
solution to the high-end customers that require redundancy and failover.  

Sure would be nice if......

I know, I know, get off my butt and write it.

Keith T Morgan
CISSP, MCP, CCSA/CCSE
Terradon Communications Group 

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