Re: Firewall and "single point of failure" issue

[Todd Graham Lewis <lists @ reflections . eng . mindspring . net>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 uskanbye @
 ibmmail .
 com wrote:

> - a "standby" preconfigured firewall HW box that we'd plug in if primary down

This is what we do.  It also greatly eases the difficulty of firewall
maintenance.  It's funny, the cost of two firewalls, FreeBSD, and Linux is
about the same as the cost of one firewall and NT server.  8^)

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