[FW1] Backup Links and Load balancing.

["Firewall-1 (Joe Voisin)" <mlist@FW1-NOSPAMengel-ec.com>]

I have a situation where I have 3 Checkpoint Firewall-1 Servers.  Two are
Management Consoles and one is just a module.

Currently all sites have T1 Internet Access, but because they are in
different countries, they are connected through dedicated circuits and not
through the Internet. 

I have been asked to try and determine if there is a way that we can add
redundancy to our network by allowing connectivity to the other firewalls
through the Internet VIA VPN in case that the frame relay network goes down.

Also, they are interested in offloading traffic to the Austrian network over
the limited 32k frame relay.  They would like to have SAP traffic go across
the frame link (to reduce latency) and everything else goes across the
Internet VPN link (more bandwidth,  but has more lag).

Has anyone done any type of load balancing across multiple links based on
type of traffic?  And how does one allow for redundant links?


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Joseph Voisin, Systems and Network Administrator, Engel Canada Inc. 
www.engelmachinery.com | joe.voisin@engel-ec.com |=====================================================================




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