Our engineer went with Foundry. From listening to them talk, they sound
very impressed. The also looked at Cisco, but they said their product(don't
know the name) was lacking.
If someone's interested, I can see if they'll post what their thoughts on
the matter are.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson, Carl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:59 PM
Subject: RE: Firewall Clustering
> Yes the Nokia solution it is quite nice but I don't think
> VRRP is capable of load-balancing, which is one of the
> things he mentioned.
>
> I'm curious also because we are also looking at firewall
> load-balancing. So far Foundry is looking pretty nice.
>
> There are solutions out there that operate at layer two,
> such as Foundry, so you don't have to add a new IP network
> to accomodate the load balancing devices. That sounds
> very cool.
>
> Carl
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jarmoc, Jeff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:23 PM
> > To: 'Richard Ginski'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: Firewall Clustering
> >
> >
> > If you don't need more than two firewalls, look at running VRRP on the
> > Nokia/Checkpoint devices. Quite nice.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Ginski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:59 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Firewall Clustering
> >
> >
> > We are investigating the possibility of a clustering solution
> > for firewalls.
> > We would want to exploit clustering for the purposes of
> > auto-failover and
> > load balancing. I was actually thinking that we would look
> > into a hardware
> > solution to accomplish clustering. Does the list have any
> > recommendations?
> > Your input, as always, is very much appreciated.
> >
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