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Richie_77270
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Feb 28, 2010

Firewall Load Balancing

We currently utilize a 5540 Active/Standby pair of firewalls that handles all of our traffic.     Recently we deployed a new application to our data center that has caused the resource usag...
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Mar 01, 2010
Thanks Bhattman

 

 

So from what I understand, the biggest issue I probably would face is during a failure within the firewall pair that could cause a confusion on the MAC address if not setup correctly?

 

 

In our situation we're not as much concerned with a small group of sessions getting dropped if a firewall failover occured.

 

 

From what I also read, auto last hop is on by default and will work regardless of the routing table?

 

 

Thanks for the info.