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RE: firewall cluster
From: "Murda Mcloud" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:11:51 +1000
I'd balance the security of variety against the issues of misconfiguring something because of the difference. Do you have one person who know each system really well or someone who knows both? -----Original Message----- From: listbounce () securityfocus com [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of sandra Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 8:18 PM To: security-basics () securityfocus com Subject: firewall cluster Hello, We want to set up a cluster of two firewalls with heartbeat. It will be an active-passive cluster, so if main firewall fails, secondary firewall would become active. We think that, although they are a cluster, they should have different Operating Systems (for example linux and BSD), so if a vulnerability has impact in our main firewall and drops it, the second firewall will start to serve without the same vulnerability affecting it. Do you think is a good idea or is better to have two identical firewalls for compatibility issues? Which combination of Operating Systems do you recommend? Thanks, Sandra
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