Heavy Load on Firewalls

["Scott, Richard" <Richard.Scott () bestbuy com>]

Greetings all,

Just wondering what the opinion and ideas that you all have concerning
traffic loads on firewalls.
Given any firewall, it can only handle so much traffic.  I have come across
ideas on load balancing firewalls, but how successful are these, considering
then the state tables et al must then be shared between all the firewalls,
either in a central deposit or between themselves in the form of packet
updates (similar to how BGP works??).

What is the best way to secure a huge farm of web servers, having numerous
firewalls? Put the firewall behind the web server and a screening router in
front, and ideas?

Cheers
r.


Richard Scott   

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