Dear All, Arrowpoint (http://www.arrowpoint.com) make a load balancing device similarily to the recently dicsussed F5 BIGip network appliance. However the arrowpoint device says that it has a built in ICSA compliant firewall. Reading a little more deeply into the speaks reveals that the firewall is a wire speed packet filter firewall. I understand the benefits of a packet filter firewall running at wire speed etc... But why would you not rely on a packet filter firewall for a load balanced web server farm. Specifically if the device performs bi-directional NAT, and the Web servers are on a private network (10.0.x.x). Does anyone know of any other load balancers with a supposedly built in wire speed filter/application firewall, that also does IP routing and has 12-16 10/100 ports? :) Also the load balaning device (and most provide this feature) can represent the 2 or more web servers as one virtual IP address (using NAT?), does anyone know if this affects the way some applications work (ie streaming video etc...) Any help/advice would be much appreciated. Regards, Colin Horsington Amos Aked Swift Pty Ltd c.horsingtonat_private Telephone: +61 2 9264 9640 Mobile: +61 0414 382 379 Facsimile: +61 2 9264 9868 http://www.aas.com.au The information in this message is confidential and may be privileged or subject to copyright. It is intended solely for the use of the intended addressee(s). The unauthorised use of the information may result in liability for breach of confidentiality, privilege or copyright. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email or reverse charge telephone call to +61 2 9264 9640 and delete the message and any attached files.
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