Heavy Load on Firewalls

From: Scott, Richard (Richard.Scottat_private)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 08:18:05 PST

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    Greetings all,
    
    Just wondering what the opinion and ideas that you all have concerning
    traffic loads on firewalls.
    Given any firewall, it can only handle so much traffic.  I have come across
    ideas on load balancing firewalls, but how successful are these, considering
    then the state tables et al must then be shared between all the firewalls,
    either in a central deposit or between themselves in the form of packet
    updates (similar to how BGP works??).
    
    What is the best way to secure a huge farm of web servers, having numerous
    firewalls? Put the firewall behind the web server and a screening router in
    front, and ideas?
    
    Cheers
    r.
    
    
    Richard Scott	
    
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