RE: Linux and firewall load balancing

["Jeremiah Powell" <jdpowell () compgeo com>]

Have you tried the http://linux-ha.org/ Linux high availability project?

For RedHat, the Piranha project (Load-balanced generic service clustering
environment) is at http://www.redhat.com/apps/community/cs_piranha.html.

Jeremiah D. Powell
Computational Geosciences, http://www.compgeo.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith T. Morgan [mailto:keith.morgan () terradon com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 11:36 AM
To: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Linux and firewall load balancing


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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