Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 14:58:44 +0200 From: Tim Priebe <tim@polytechnic.edu.na> To: Sean Lutner <sean@rentul.net> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failover firewalls with ipfw? Message-ID: <3A698B84.8BF22034@polytechnic.edu.na> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101191426030.89288-100000@lowrider.lewman.org>
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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. My approch to this problem is to use a pair of FreeBSD boxes running ipfw as firewalls, and dynamic routing to handle the fail over. I am running stateless rules, as I have not had time to look into writing the code to get them to exchange state information. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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