Re: Implementing PIX Failover over a Fibre link?

[John Adams <jna () retina net>]

All of these failover issues are yet another reason to stop using the PIX.
We're considering going to multiple Lucent Bricks with a alteon box on
each side of the bricks. This eliminates the failver timeout/delay and
closing of open connections should a firewall die. It's far more expensive
though, and it's too bad the prices of the Bricks are not more competitive
with the dual pix solution.

-john

On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Robert Collins wrote:

> <..>
> > On the other hand, you could use native failover and extend the failover
> > cable via modems, but this is not officially supported by Cisco. As you
> > will definitely need some dynamic routing in the setup, I would much
> prefer
> > a clean routing-based solution.
>
> I recall reading somewhere in the PIX documentation that "serial
> extenders" - including modems - wil not work with the failover cable.
>
> Rob
>
>
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