Load balancing firewalls?
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Load balancing firewalls?

From: Shade <shade@darkness.net>
Date: Thu Oct 27 2005 - 21:49:54 CEST

Hi All,

I'm setting up a dual-ISP setup at home (cable modem and ADSL) and am
shopping around a dual-ISP-capable firewall box.

Ideally, I'd like the box to be able to handle:

1) DMZ (at least one zone) because I'll be hooking up a gaming server
off of this router

2) Static and Dynamic NAT

3) Load balancing (combining and treating the two ISPs like a single,
large data pipe both in and out) for those computers not in the DMZ
(that computer is getting a static IP).

4) Web-manageable (not Cisco PIX CLI)

I'm thinking like the Firebox X500 + Fireware Pro or Sonic Wall TZ-170
+SonicOS Upgrade maybe.

I'm open to all ideas; the cheaper, the better.

Thanks,
Curtis
Received on Mon Nov 21 02:34:20 2005