What is the clustering software? If it's Rainwall, your best bet is to use
two small switches with a crossover connection:
[switch]-----[switch]
| |
[fw] [fw]
HTH,
Jack Coates, Rainfinity SE
t: 650-962-5301 m: 650-280-4376
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Jane Ferreira Cunha wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are installing a firewall cluster, with 2 Sun workstations. Each
> one has one interface card for each subnet, that will be connected to the
> subnet switches, in a rather ordinary way.
> However, we still have some points of failure, i.e., the switches.
> If they fail, the servers will be isolated, and unreachable from the
> cluster. So we are thinking about using 2 switches for each subnet. So we
> have 2 alternatives:
>
> 1. Connect each firewall interface in a different switch (in this
> case, if a switch fails, would it be as if one of the firewalls had failed?)
>
> 2. Put, in each firewall, 2 interfaces in each subnet, so each
> firewall, in each subnet, would be connected to both switches. Considering
> that we are already using a cluster (Stonebeat), is this situation feasible?
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jane.
>
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