Don't use an F5 Link controller - Maybe they have the issues fleshed out now, but its expensive, complex and ours never has worked they way their SA's said it would.... On another note: We looked at www.peplink.com <http://www.peplink.com/> as a replacement and www.elfiq.com <http://www.elfiq.com/> both seem easy not real expensive and will get the job done. I believe both will do inbound and outbound LB, and have a built-in DNS server to handle the delegated A records to serve up for inbound. It's been awhile since we looked at these so YMMV.
________________________________ From: Brian Desmond [mailto:br...@briandesmond.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 1:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Group Reccomendations for load balancers? Forefront TMG will do this - might be a cheap option. Thanks, Brian Desmond br...@briandesmond.com c - 312.731.3132 From: N Parr [mailto:npar...@mortonind.com] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 12:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Group Reccomendations for load balancers? Right now we have an ASA with two internet connections. ASA can only use secondary connection as failover, can't load balance. Need to put something in front of the ASA to handle 2-3 connections. We do hardware, software and SSL VPN's with the ASA. Don't have a budget at the moment. Would prefer to keep it in the 2-3k range tops. Zytel and Barracuda are the only two I've done a bit of research on. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
