Firewall routing thought...

["Eric Appelboom" <eric () mweb com>]

Hi,
This question is wrt traffic routing between two firewalls and improving
efficiency.

If one has firewall A with external ip on the same subnet as firewall B.
How common is the practice of adding static routes on firewall A for The
networks protected by firewall B and the other way round.

Would this technique not lower the latency or overheads of not having the
packets en route from firewall A to firewall B being sent to its default
gateway to then be processed by the router and sent to firewall B. Thus the
traffic would be direct A<-->B

Besides being a tad messy would it be considered and at what traffic rate?

Regards
Eric

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