Removable disk drive bays and carriers can he had for ~ $100. Put two of
them in the firewall. dd then does the trick of making a mirror image,
assuming its a unix firewall.
The only downside is the box must be offline to do the dd. But a dd of a
2 GB SCSI takes only about 20-30 minutes. This solution also is not
reliable with ide drives. Of course the two drives must be the same
geometry.
Cheers:
-arc
Arley Carter
Tradewinds Technologies, Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC USA
email: ac @
twinds .
com
www: http://www.twinds.com
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997 uskanbye @
ibmmail .
com wrote:
> In an environment with a single network connection to the Internet guarded
> by a firewall, what's the best strategy for providing fault-tolerance to
> this connection?
>
> A few things we're looking at:
>
> - aggressive service and response-time (< 2 hrs) requirements for firewall HW
> - a "standby" preconfigured firewall HW box that we'd plug in if primary down
> - in case of firewall failure, fall back on router packet filtering
> without a firewall in place.
>
> Comments? What are you doing?
>
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