Re: High Speed Firewalls

[Bennett Todd <bet () rahul net>]

2000-03-07-12:07:07 Chenggong Charles Fan:
> Have you had a chance to look at a product called Rainwall, made
> by Rainfinity. (www.rainfinity.com) It has a very different
> approach from hardware load-balancers.  It is a software-only
> solution, installed right on the firewalls, and manages virtual
> IPs on the firewalls.  In effect, it is almost similar to the
> LB-DNS you suggested.

I haven't, but other folks have forwarded comments about it to me.
Sounds like it might be an interesting approach.

So far I've managed to avoid the need for load-balancers for
firewalls; I use 'em in front of web farms.

And in other news, it looks from what people have said, and the
claims on the web page, like BigIP has gotten some kind of adaptive
server-load-tracking abilities, so I guess the LocalDirector is no
longer the only player in town.

-Bennett

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