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RE: Heavy Load on Firewalls
From: "Jules Veloria" <jveloria () rainfinity com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:35:32 -0800
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 The views expressed in this email do not represent Best Buy or any of its subsidiaries.
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- Heavy Load on Firewalls Scott, Richard (Jan 28)
- RE: Heavy Load on Firewalls Jules Veloria (Jan 31)