Cisco Secure Firewall Services Module (FWSM)
by Ray CCIE No. 7050 Blair, Arvind CCIE No. 7016 Durai
Chapter 18 Firewall Load Balancing
Firewall load balancing is commonly seen in data centers or Internet architecture of e-commerce networks, where there is a high volume of traffic traversing the firewall infrastructure. With firewall load balancing, multiple firewalls can be referenced by a single IP address defined in a load balancer. The load balancer can distribute the traffic load among firewalls, or multiple virtual IP addresses (VIP) in a load balancer can reference firewalls for different traffic profiles, to give alignment between VIP and traffic profiles. The redundancy properties can be separated per traffic profiles attached to a VIP. This concept helps define a firewall cluster, which is a group of firewalls, aligned with load-balancing ...
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