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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 02:12:19 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Failover firewalls with ipfw?
Message-ID:  <20010120021219.G10761@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101191426030.89288-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>; from sean@rentul.net on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:30:38PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101191426030.89288-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 02:30:38PM -0500, Sean Lutner wrote:
> I'm currently doing some research into firewalls, and which one(s) would
> be right for my network. I'm considering everything from Checkpoint-1, to
> Cisco Pix, to ipchains, to ipfw on FreeBSD. My question is this. Does
> anyone out there know of any utilities/code/addons I could use to
> implement a failover pair of firewalls using ipfw and fbsd? Ideally I'd
> like to do stateful failover, but having two machines always on and a
> heartbeat solution might wirk as well. If anyone can offer some pointers,
> it would be much appreciated.

I've used Stonebeat and Firewall-1, and to be honest, I think you
could probably toss together some home-built code and get something
with >90% of its functionality in days... If you don't spend a lot of
time testing every possible scenario (accurately simulating fizzling
hardware is non-trivial) . Heck, if the price is right, I could build
something for ya'. ;)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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