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Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls
From: Avleen Vig <lists-nanog () silverwraith com>
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 09:11:15 -0800 (PST)
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Tony Kapela wrote:
I'm in total agreement as to the untily and significant headache-reduction that a *bsd os (with real interactive editor makes -- Vi for IOS must be too challenging). However, I do see a sore spot. One area that I've not seen much attention paid to (yet?) is failover. Don't assume that I'm advocating the use of a PIX here, but has anyone yet successfully used ipf/pf to export and then import the state tables on a backup host? In my experience, doing that w/ PIXen has been quite simple.
It'd be an interesting challenge to get this working with ipf/pf.
Forget all the ARP/ifconfig/heartbeat fudgery that'd be required to acheive failover on *bsd with ipf/pf -- just finding a simple way to move said state table from host to host seems interesting and challenging.
ipf now has 'ipfs' which can dump and restore the current states table :-)
Current thread:
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls, (continued)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Mikael Abrahamsson (Jan 16)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls dre (Jan 16)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls David G. Andersen (Jan 16)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Scott Francis (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Avleen Vig (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Scott Francis (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Richard A Steenbergen (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Avleen Vig (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls E.B. Dreger (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Tony Kapela (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Avleen Vig (Jan 18)
- Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls Stefan Paletta (Jan 18)