RE: Heavy Load on Firewalls

["Jules Veloria" <jveloria () rainfinity com>]

Richard,

One way to maintain firewall functionality and meet traffic loads is to
cluster firewalls.  Clustering provides high throughput and high
availability for firewalls.  One solution that clusters and load balances
Check Point FW-1 servers is Rainwall, a software-only solution.  It has been
very successful in a number of mission-critical sites and scales linearly to
meet increasing bandwidth requirements.

Best regards,

Jules Veloria
Rainfinity
1901 Landings Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043
(W) 650-404-9824
(F) 650-404-9877
jveloria () rainfinity com
www.rainfinity.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net
> [mailto:owner-firewall-wizards () lists nfr net]On Behalf Of Scott, Richard
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 8:18 AM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr net
> Subject: Heavy Load on Firewalls
>
>
> Greetings all,
>
> Just wondering what the opinion and ideas that you all have concerning
> traffic loads on firewalls.
> Given any firewall, it can only handle so much traffic.  I have
> come across
> ideas on load balancing firewalls, but how successful are these,
> considering
> then the state tables et al must then be shared between all the firewalls,
> either in a central deposit or between themselves in the form of packet
> updates (similar to how BGP works??).
>
> What is the best way to secure a huge farm of web servers, having numerous
> firewalls? Put the firewall behind the web server and a screening
> router in
> front, and ideas?
>
> Cheers
> r.
>
>
> Richard Scott
>
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