Re: Load balancer in lieu of firewall...

dolskereston.wcom.net
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:22:54 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Scott Brown wrote:

> If you ask
> around at BIGip, you will find that one of their customers uses BIGip to
> load balance traffic across firewalls to avoid traffic bottlenecks at the
> network demarcation point. If they provide all firewall services, why would
> someone (I believe it is the army) want to do this?

They might be talking about us... :-) The InterLock (formally ANS, now
UUNET/WorldCom) is an application layer firewall, so we can do a quite a
bit more than simple ACLs can do. I believe we offer a firewall/BIGip
package, where the firewall takes care of security, and the BIGip simply
provides load balancing and HA.

Justin Dolske (dolskereston.wcom.net)
UUNET, an MCI WorldCom company Interlock Firewall Development

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