Re: Linux Firewall Active/Active

[Michael Schwartzkopff <ms@sys4.de>]

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Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2014, 17:50:05 schrieb Ricardo Klein:
> Michael,
> 
> thanks for your repply, I forgot to mention that each one are in
> different places, so I wanted to set each local network to use the
> nearest firewall. And yes, I will have a hardware that can handle the
> whole network.

Do you have a layer 2 connection between both locations? Or do you do some 
dynamic routing changes in the case of a failover?
 
> But, why not active/active?  (sorry for the silly question, if you can
> just point me to any good source I can read about, its ok, no need to
> waste your time with this)

Source: Common sense.

A load-balancing firewall makes things complicated. Keep it simple, so it will 
work reliable.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Michael Schwartzkopff

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