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Re: High availability firewalls


From: Jyri Kaljundi <jk () stallion ee>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:30:18 +0200 (EET)

On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Allen Todd wrote:

A solution I've been implementing lately at my company is to use 
fault tolerant sparc5's from Resilience.  They are quite pricey 
but since we're using a commercial firewall, it is offset 
somewhat by not having to purchase a second firewall license.

Do they give software HA also or only hardware fault tolerance? Why I want
HA firewalls on 2 machines to be used is because I believe the software
(OS, firewall software) will fail, not the hardware itself. 

Jyri Kaljundi
jk () stallion ee
AS Stallion Ltd
http://www.stallion.ee/



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