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RE: Info Request: Looking for alternatives in HA/Load balancing firewalls that are also scalable and modular. . .
From: Jan Tietze <jan.tietze () netheads de>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:02:58 +0000
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:06:42 -0400, "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com> wrote:
Sounds like a big firewall. I'm curious, though, as to why load-balancing is a requirement. My experience has been that an appropriately-sized single firewall as part of a fail-over pair is more reliable and performs better than a comparable load-balanced firewall.
I'd say that's really implementation specific. I can see why this would be the case, but that really depends on the actual solution.
The only other firewall vendor I can think of that does (or at least claims to do) load-balancing is Symantec Enterprise Firewall. However, you may also want to look at third-party load-balancing solutions like Radware FireProof or Foundry ServerIron.
StoneSoft StoneGate has really neat clustering with dynamic re-distribution of load etc. They also used to do deliver load balancing solutions for Checkpoint for a long time. -- Jan _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com http://honor.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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