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Load balancing firewalls?

Hi All,

I'm setting up a dual-ISP setup at home (cable modem and ADSL) and am shopping around a dual-ISP-capable firewall box.

Ideally, I'd like the box to be able to handle:

1) DMZ (at least one zone) because I'll be hooking up a gaming server off of this router

2) Static and Dynamic NAT

3) Load balancing (combining and treating the two ISPs like a single, large data pipe both in and out) for those computers not in the DMZ (that computer is getting a static IP).

4) Web-manageable (not Cisco PIX CLI)

I'm thinking like the Firebox X500 + Fireware Pro or Sonic Wall TZ-170

+SonicOS Upgrade maybe.

I'm open to all ideas; the cheaper, the better.

Thanks, Curtis

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Shade
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Shade bashed at the keyboard and came up with this gem of wisdom in alt.computer.security:

Linux. BSD

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Michael Thompson

I use FreeBSD's ipfw. It is an excellent firewall...

Imhotep

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Imhotep

I appreciate the ideas of FreeBSD and Linux, but I'm trying to avoid a CLI.

Reply to
Shade

Interested to hear if you find something that does load balancing in a price range you can live with. Many low to medium firewalls do everything you want except the load balancing.

-Russ.

Reply to
Somebody.

Better change your mind. I don't know any single person, who is not able to use a CLI but is able to understand much about networking and computer security.

And this conincidence is no fortuity, I bet.

BTW: there are many GUIs and web UIs for netfilter and other free filtering software, too.

Yours, VB.

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Volker Birk

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Shade

Those look kind of neat, if they work as advertised. They could be used outside of a "real" firewall potentially.

-Russ.

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Somebody.

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