[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [FW-1] Alteon via F5
> The main problem there is that Nokias running VRRP don't provide a > load-balanced solution; this is only a fail-over (HA) solution. The original post was about two different firewalls with two different service providers both active at the same time. There is no routing protocol (VRRP, BGP or otherwise) which will let you do this. Products such as Linkproof (from Radware) and Fat Pipe were designed to address exactly this sort of problem, rather than more general purpose load balancers. -Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 16.09 > To: [email protected] > 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 > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= > ================================================= To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, send an email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [email protected] =================================================
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