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2004 Dec 28
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failover strategies - failing open vs. failing closed.
I''d like to setup a box with 2 NICs as a firewall which will also rate limits outbound traffic. What happens when/if that box hangs or is rebooted? I''d like a solution that when there is a failure, traffic can still go through the box even though the firewall and rate limiting functions will no longer be in effect. I believe that this is "failing closed" but have