Shorewall users - Apr 2002 - Resiliant firewalls

Hi all,

I have been using shorewall for sometime and am very happy with it, though I 
am concerned that my firewall is a single point of failure on the network. 
Has anyone tried clustering firewalls using shorewall as well as something 
like linux virtual server? I think there could well be some messy routing 
issues but the thought of a resiliant pair of firewalls would help me sleep 
at night.

Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated

Mark Reynolds

Principal Systems Engineer
e-street.com

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Mark Reynolds wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using shorewall for sometime and am very happy with it, though
I
> am concerned that my firewall is a single point of failure on the network. 
> Has anyone tried clustering firewalls using shorewall as well as something 
> like linux virtual server? I think there could well be some messy routing 
> issues but the thought of a resiliant pair of firewalls would help me sleep
> at night.
> 
> Any ideas or thoughts would be much appreciated
> 
You might check the archives of the LEAF User list at Sourceforge - seems 
to me that this topic has been discussed there in the past.

-Tom
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