Re: Load balancer in lieu of firewall...

[dolske () reston wcom net]

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Scott Brown wrote:

> If you ask
> around at BIGip, you will find that one of their customers uses BIGip  to
> load balance traffic across firewalls to avoid traffic bottlenecks at the
> network demarcation point.  If they provide all firewall services, why would
> someone (I believe it is the army) want to do this?

They might be talking about us... :-) The InterLock (formally ANS, now
UUNET/WorldCom) is an application layer firewall, so we can do a quite a
bit more than simple ACLs can do. I believe we offer a firewall/BIGip
package, where the firewall takes care of security, and the BIGip simply
provides load balancing and HA.

Justin Dolske   (dolske () reston wcom net)
UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company                 Interlock Firewall Development