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Firewall Wizards: Re: Info Request: Looking for alternatives in HA/Load balancingfirewalls that are also scalable and modular. . .

Re: Info Request: Looking for alternatives in HA/Load balancingfirewalls that are also scalable and modular. . .

From: Darren Reed <darrenr_at_reed.wattle.id.au>
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:29:06 +1000 (EST)

> Load-balancing done by firewalls has an overhead cost due to copying state
> table entries back and forth that has to be factored in to throughput
> calculations.

That's not load balancing, that's what you do when you want redundency
(failover protection.)

Darren
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