Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:06:34 +1000 (Australia/ACT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: mike@adept.org (Mike Hoskins) Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firewall 'stateful failover' Message-ID: <200206110206.MAA17580@caligula.anu.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020610155455.Y96521-100000@snafu.adept.org> from "Mike Hoskins" at Jun 10, 2002 04:10:56 PM
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In some mail from Mike Hoskins, sie said: > > > Is there a way to handle the state table in ipfw/ipf? I could write > scripts to do 'failover', but I'm wandering if there's a way to 'share' > the state table between active and standby units or to pass the state > table from one firewall to another over a crossover. > > I've briefly searched Google for 'BSD Firewall Failover', but didn't find > a whole lot. I'm looking for pointers to existing solutions, as well as > generalized ideas (about good ways to do this, if it hasn't been done > yet). Of course I ideally want pointers to opensource solutions... If > none exist, this could be a fun project. However, I find it hard to > believe this wheel hasn't already been carved out of stone. You can use ipfs to save & restore state/NAT tables in IPFilter. But that's as far as I've gone. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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