I don't think you can load-balance on a PIX. Someone mentioned Cisco is
working on Ver. 6.0 , I wonder if this might be a feature included.
Nabil
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Allen May
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 11:35 AM
To: Rossetti, Stan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Load Balancing Across Multiple PIX
They won't load balance natively. The problem with getting a load balancer
before the PIX is that you either have it on the inside balancing outbound
traffic or outside balancing inbound traffic. The PIX needs a static route
for traffic going the other direction and you can't have multiple default
routes on a PIX. The interface without the load balancer would have to have
some kind of rigged BGP or something like that to distribute coming to the
pixes or you'll have routing issues.
I could be wrong...just my first thougth on the situation....without COFFEE.
I don't think there's any easy way to do this...
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From: "Rossetti, Stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:01 AM
Subject: Load Balancing Across Multiple PIX
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Does anybody know if it is possible to load balance across multiple PIX
> firewalls? I have looked at numerous Cisco web pages, but never any
mention
> of load balancing. I have talked to a sales engineer and he has said that
> to get 1GB of throughput from a PIX firewall, you need to install 3 PIX
> firewalls and do load balancing across them. The max throughput from one
> PIX is 370MBps. Of course, I can't get the sales engineer to return my
call
> now. Doe anyone know if this is true? Do you have to have 3 PIX to do
load
> balancing? I would like to just do load balancing across 2 PIX firewalls.
> Is this possible?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Stan Rossetti
>
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