On Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 11:50:18, Craig Deal wrote:
> <Please don't recommend X app on a Linux box.
> <Not to start a religious war, but we don't do
> <any Linux, not interested in learning it, etc.
>
> I'm not trying to sell you on the idea, but you may not realize how easy it
> is to setup a Linux firewall. All firewall's run on _some type_ of OS and
> they don't require you to know anything about it. With the Linux firewall's,
>   ...

And  if  you  do  explore  this  direction I would recommend considering
OpenBSD as well.

At least two of your desires
> 1.  Be redundant (run 2 firewalls for failover)
> 6.  Internal load balancer functionality
is supported by OpenBSDs Common Address Redundancy Protocol (CARP)
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP

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