Re: High availability firewalls

[Roger Nebel <roger () homecom com>]

> .... much snipped ...

>   Two things come to mind:
>   1.) The cisco PIX firewall has a Failover option - you purchase a
> second PIX and connect the two with a failover cable:
>
> LAN 1 ------ router 1 -------- firewall 1 ------ LAN 2
>                            |      X          |
>                            |---firewall 2 ---|
>  Where "X" is the failover cable and firewall # 2 is idle
> until firewall # 1 fails.  Probably other vendors besides cisco
> have this kind of technology available.


the cisco url is http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/751/lodir/lodir_rg.htm