On 22 Nov 2000, at 9:15, Fredo La Malice wrote:
> Francis Guyanne wrote
> >The load balancing capability is also another "asked " feature for PIX
>
> >firewall.
>
> I don't understand why it's asked because the load-balancing is done
> lower in an architecture.
>
> If you have two pix in failover mode and you want to "load balance". You
> just have to put a switch before the two pix, and this swith will make
> load-balancing. No?, Tell me if I'm false.
The PIX licensing says that you can only have one of the PIXen "live" in a
failover setup. Because the failover unit costs much less than the primary
unit it doesn't include licenses for connections, but when the primary goes
down the failover "takes over" the primary licensing. If you want to load
balance PIXen you have to buy multiple primary units.
Dan
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