Hi, Would there be a problem if you ran two two firewall proggies at the same time?
I did a websearch first any only found http://www.fosters.com/special_sections/online/articles2001/1023d.htm Which only says two firewalls might conflict with each other without any specific info. Besides that there might be softwarewise conflict between them, I'm only interested in this from security standpoint. I was thinking you could use the strengths of both. I also read on the website of networkice that most firewalls fall short when networkload is high: BlackICE was able to catch 99% of the attacks on a fully-loaded 10/100 Mbps network using less than 40% of the CPU resources. The closest competitor used 90% of the CPU resources and only managed to catch 9% of the attacks. I can't imagine that when you have installed two firewalls that they would spread the load since the two programs do not interact with each other, but more likely that they both would take more cpu resources and check less network traffic when running two firewalls at the same time under heave network traffic. Is this true? Philip Wagenaar
