The ArrowPoint CSS switches (11000 series) allow you to do both load
balancing and active-active stateful failover for the PIX. In fact, you can
use the 11000 to daisy chain PIXen together and actually build a physical
ring of connected PIX firewalls around your site, which would not only be
really secure, but lovely to look at as well. ;^)
-bill
At 04:42 PM 10/29/2000, Brian Ford wrote:
>Fabio,
>
>Yes, it is possible with the PIX.
>
>Have you tried the 525 with GigE interfaces? It should meet your
>throughput requirement.
>
>For GigE load balancing I'd suggest you look at the 525 with our recently
>acquired ArrowPoint CSS switches. ArrowPoint developed some very nice
>firewall load balancing features on their platform.
>
>Regards,
>
>Brian
>
> >
> >Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:12:01 +0200 (CEST)
> >From: "Fabio Pietrosanti \(naif\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Cisco PIX Load Balacing (Possible??!)
> >
> >does someone know if it's possible to use more than 1 Cisco PIX FIrewall
> >525 using some form of load balancing/sharing system?
> >
> >i know nokia fw-1 should work in vrrp, but if possible i need to use PIX
> >with something like 500/600mb/s.
> >
> >Best Regards
> >
> >Pietrosanti Fabio I.NET SpA, High Quality Access to the Internet
> >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( Direzione Tecnica, Gruppo Firewall )
> >
>Brian Ford
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