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From: Markus Boelter <markus@mitternachtsstun.de>
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Subject: Re: Multiple Firewalls with ipfilter?
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Hi!

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:39:45PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> Hmmm, you could probably do some ingenious stuff with ipfs and a
> shared disk partition, where the 'active' firewall save its state
> periodically.  When this falls over, the code that handles the switch
> to the 'backup' machine could reload the state from the shared disk :)

Hm - and if the disk fails, you don't have redundancy :))

cu!
  Markus

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