Re: For firewalls, what`s best? Load-Sharing or High-Availability?

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:59 PM,  <hosts.deny () gmail com> wrote:
> I`m working with a customer that uses Checkpoint Firewalls and he wants to know what`s the best for their 
> environment, is it Load-Sharing or High-Availability ?
>
> Actually, they have 3 cluster of HA firewalls that are one on Internet, another for Users and another one for the 
> DMZ. Is it a good topology ?
They should be able to do this with one firewall (ie, the one box
manages the EXTERNAL, DMZ, and INTERNAL). Using three - one for each
LAN/WAN segment - seems a bit odd to me. Did I read the statement
properly?

Jeff

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