RE: [FW1] question about 4.1 SP4 "new feature"

[Dan Hitchcock <DHitchcock@FW1-NOSPAMbreakwatersecurity.com>]

Title: RE: [FW1] question about 4.1 SP4 "new feature"

The original question is a good one.  I have found no details regarding the new mechanism, but the "old" HA mechanism was limited to hubs because it utilized a duplicated MAC for each member of the cluster.  This would obviously lead to STP blocking in a switched environment (turning off Spanning Tree might make it work, but would certainly not be supported).  I *assume* that the mechanism introduced in SP4 (as well as NG) is based on multicast.  Anyone?

Dan Hitchcock
Security Analyst

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Leong [mailto:leongkevin@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:15 PM
To: OutMail@ardennet.com; fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: Re: [FW1] question about 4.1 SP4 "new feature"

Hi Raymond,

You can only use hubs for operative and control interfaces for the firewall
HA in SP2 and below.  Then came SP3, whereby switches are supported in HA
environment, but was in a beta version.  SP4 fully support switches in HA
environment.

Hope this helps.

Kevin

From: Raymond N <OutMail@ardennet.com>
To: fw-1-mailinglist@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com
Subject: [FW1] question about 4.1 SP4 "new feature"
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:57:30 -0700

I was reading the release note about CP 4.1 SP4.  On page 3, it states that
"Check Point High Availability now supports switched environment".
Exactly, what does this mean?  Are they taking about spanning tree protocol
or something else?

Thanks.

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