Firewall Wizards: RE: External Load Balancing

["Warren Verbanec" <Warren.Verbanec () resilience com>]

Sweet Jeebus!- don't go with F5! Their performance numbers are nowhere near what they claim to be (in my experience). 
Just waaaay too many exceptions to the rule.

I'm personally biased, as I've done a lot of work with F5 corporate, and had poor experiences across the board. But the 
numbers are the real reason why I don't recommend them- the IXIA doesn't lie! 


I've had best results with Foundry. www.foundrynet.com/products/webswitches/serveriron/fwlb.html

-Warren Verbanec
Resilience

-----Original Message-----
From: L Cubed [mailto:lllcubed () gmail com]
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:10 AM
To: Richard St John
Cc: firewall-wizards () honor icsalabs com
Subject: Re: [fw-wiz] External Load Balancing


Are you using statefull inspection, application proxies, or a
combination of both?


On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 08:21:10 -0600, Richard St John
<Richard.StJohn () gbe com> wrote:
snip, snip
> We are beginning to look at load balancing the external side of our
> network so that a packet from the outside has a one in four chance of
> hitting a specific firewall.
snip, snip
> Resonate Central Dispatch
> Radware Web Server Director
> Alteon ACE director 2
> F5 Big/ip
> Coyote Point Equalizer E250
> Holon Tech Hyper Flow 2
> IBM WebSphere Perf. Pack
> Hydra Web Hydra
> Ipivot Intelligent Broker 4000
>
> Anyone have comments about these?
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