Hi, On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Oskar Andreasson wrote:
> Sorry for the late reply. I never suggested that this usage (see > below) is only theoretical and I'm very sorry if it was misinterpreted > as that. Oh, no! I wanted to *second* you in this argument. Regards, Jozsef > ----- Original Message ----- > > > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Oskar Andreasson wrote: > > > > > Another, related, usage is > > > if we have a redundant firewall (I haven't seen this discussed so far > > > so.... Consider this: > > > > > > 1 main firewall > > > 1 router > > > and a secondary firewall. > > > > > > The three are set up in a routing zone. If the main firewall goes > > > down, the router will notice, and route packets through the redundant > > > firewall. If the NEW target was to allow only SYN packets, this would > > > be impossible as you can understand from this. > > > > We have been using such a redundant setup for more than a year. > > It's *not* theoretical. > > > > Regards, > > Jozsef > > - > > E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec > > Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics > > H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary > > > > > - E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW-Home: http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec Address : KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary
