Re: Concentrator inside of paired failover firewalls.

[Aaron Smith <smitha () byui edu>]

On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 16:35 -0700, Carson Gaspar wrote:
> There are _zero_ reliable commercial HA solutions that will go insane if 
> you use a cross-over cable and they both loose link at the same time. 

So, PIX is not a reliable commercial solution then.  OK.

> If 
> you use 2 switches, and the trunk between them fails, both devices think 
> they are "up" (yes, you can use multiple trunks, but you can use multiple 
> x-overs as well - keep it apples to apples). If you use a cross-over cable, 
> and it fails, both devices think they are "down". Any decent HA system can 
> handle both failure modes. 

Then PIX is also not a decent HA system.  Great.

> If an HA system _can't_ handle both failure 
> modes, it's crap and you shouldn't buy it.

PIX (using IP failover) is crap.  I get it now.

As a final note, using a crossover cable with a PIX is very stupid.  If
you keep the pair in the same room then use the failover cable.
IP-based failover is useful if the PIX pair is geographically separated,
in which case they'd most likely be homed to different switches.  Which
was my initial point.

@@ron Smith
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