RE: Hardware vs. Software firewall reliability

[dwelch () phoneboy com]

On Sun, 12 September 1999, "Joe Ippolito" wrote:


> Isn't the state table maintained at least partially in memory though?
> Otherwise it seems that any type of clustering software would work for HA.
> All you would need is two minimal boxes and a shared RAID array.

Check Point's connection state information is stored entirely in RAM. Warm standby configurations (which can be 
achieved with clustering software) typically do not take advantage of Check Point's state sync feature. 

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