Re: [FW-1] Alteon via F5

["Patrick T. Glynn" <ptglynn@FW1-NOSPAMHOTMAIL.COM>]

Another consideration is the additional costs/restrictions on the
configuration. We recently evaluated the Foundry, Alteon, and Cisco
solution. The Cisco solution REQUIRES additional L2 switches/VLANS to
connect everything up properly ( 4 more boxes in the fully redundant
solution with 2 firewalls ). The Foundry solution required no additional L2
switching between the boxes to make it work. We also noted that the Alteons
had some (IMHO) rather strange restrictions on the  addresses you could NAT
to while the Foundries' FWLB hashing algorithm denied us the possibility of
simultaneously NATing the source and destination on the FW (everybody does
that these days, don't they :). Also, the Cisco solution doesn't support NAT
on the firewall according to the documentation. The sales force/SE
informed us otherwise, but we had to use some special configuration to
make it work. After all was said and done, we ended up with the Cisco
solution for Layer 8 reasons..
HTH,
ptg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve" <yahoo@PROPH.CO.UK>
To: <FW-1-MAILINGLIST@beethoven.us.checkpoint.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 15:09
Subject: Re: [FW-1] Alteon via F5


> > Please mister salesman give it up. The days of software load
> > balancing are
> > coming to an end. Rapidstream Checkpoint Appliance do it in
> > hardware and its
> > quick and fast and doesn't require another mortgage to buy it.
>
> Eh? Alteons are very expensive. They are very expensive and so is their
> support.
>
> To effectively load/HA balance two horizontal Firewalls you would need
> 4 Alteons.
>
> By almeans use them to Load balance web servers but as someone mentioned.
> VRRP (for example on the Nokias) is very effective for Firewalls.
>
> -Steve
>
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