RE: [FW1] Load Balancing Agent

["Mark Decker" <mdecker@FW1-NOSPAMrainfinity.com>]

The things Jeff mentioned about Connect Control and Check Point's own HA
module are true, but I do have a point of correction:  StoneBeat
FullCluster is not the only alternative for true firewall clustering.
Rainfinity's RainWall is an active/active clustering solution for
FW-1/VPN-1.  Unlike StoneBeat, RainWall does not require reconfiguration
of routers and switches to use multicast MAC addresses.  It is a
3rd-party product, but has been designed specifically for FW-1/VPN-1,
and thoroughly tested and certified by Check Point for OPSEC compliance.

Mark L. Decker
Rainfinity
mdecker@rainfinity.com
www.rainfinity.com> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hochberg
> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: 'Paul Telle'; 'Henrik Widov';
>
> Connect Control is not a firewall load balancing product.  It
> is used for
> load balancing web servers (etc.) that sit behind your firewalls.
> Checkpoint does have an HA product for firewalls, but it
> doesn't perform
> load balancing.  Only one gateway is active at any given
> point in time.
>
> For true firewall clustering, your only alternative is Stonebeat Full
> Cluster.  Unfortunately, with the way this product works
> (multicast), there
> is a very strong possibility that you will also need to touch
> the configs on
> your routers and/or switches in order to get it to function properly.
>




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