Phil,
Ideally your Internet router is a great External Beacon. If you lose it then you have more trouble than the firewall failing.
If you have a manageable switch you could use it for a beacon combined with the other firewall. I am assuming you have nothing on the EXTERNAL side of your firewall besides the router.
David
At 06:32 AM 6/30/2004, Phil Dye wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations/best practices regarding choice of HA beacons?
My upstream ISP filters all ICMP to their own routers/servers, so I can't use anything of theirs (eg my default gateway would be a logical choice), and clearly, if I just use the other GB in the HA pair, then if that goes down, so does the good one (since it gets no beacon responses, so demotes itself to the init state).
So, where can I use as a beacon that's i) polite to ping twice a second, and ii) reliable?
-- phil
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