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Re: Info Request: Looking for alternatives in HA/Load balancingfirewalls that are also scalable and modular. . .


From: Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:29:06 +1000 (EST)

Load-balancing done by firewalls has an overhead cost due to copying state
table entries back and forth that has to be factored in to throughput
calculations.

That's not load balancing, that's what you do when you want redundency
(failover protection.)

Darren
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