Fellow Firewall Fabricators (and list),

At 08:00 AM 5/24/2001 +0000, SteveS scrawled:
>It seems the only commercial FW product that has a MAC/IP fail over is
>FW-1.

Actually, a pair of Cisco PIXen in failover configuration share IP and MAC 
addresses on failover.

>There's an annoying gap in FW technology in regard to
>redundancy.  Actually that's not quite true, I can provide redundancy as
>long as I don't mind adding 5X the hardware and $$$$$.  Frustrating but
>there's only so much I can get done in a 80 hour work week...

Agreed.  But much of it is due to vocabulary.

We vendors are working on failover and load balancing and you seem to want 
redundancy.  When you say redundancy, most vendors (IMHO) think multiple 
boxes or (to be fair to my esteemed colleagues at companies that make 
software) licenses.  That doesn't really tell us what the multiple boxes or 
licenses should do.

Back at ya!

Still in China,

Brian

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