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Re: Firewall Load Balance
From: mahhy <mahhy () undertow ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:18:27 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Marcelo Barbosa Lima wrote:
Is it possible to implement an architecture of firewall load balance using only two Linux Boxes? LVS permits to implement load balance to services. I want to offer load balance and high availibility using Linux. Did anybody do it? Thanks,
I currently do this at work. Two Linux iptables firewalls, using the High Availability package from www.linux-ha.org. This allows the Primary Firewall to fail and the Secondary to take over. I know this isnt quite what you are looking for, as you would like to load balance over the two machines. My solution to this was to use OSPF on the firewalls, and a fairly intelligent router behind the firewall. It basically round robins any outbound connections to the two machines (since in OSPF terms there are two default routes). I'm sure there are other ways to achieve this as well. -- Rob Rankin mahhy () undertow ca http://undertow.ca _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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