PIX firewall load balancing

[arumugasamy]

I have to configure the pix firewall in fail over setup.

Pls I would like to know the answer for the following question.

1. Does pix firewall support load balancing along with redundancy (failover)

swamy

[sachinraja]

Hi swamy,

Nope.. the pix firewall doesnt support load balancing with redundancy now. Its only an active-standby setup. In pix v7.0, you can have an active-active setup, but still doesnt do load balancing of traffic. in active-active, the incoming and the outgoing traffic is splitted between the pixs, thus reducing the load on each pix.

hope this helps.. all the best...

Raj

[matt-long]

The Pix version 7.0 does support load balancing.

I quote

"With Active/Active failover, both units can pass network traffic. This lets you configure load balancing on your network. Active/Active failover is only available on units running in multiple context mode."

From

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/sw/secursw/ps2120/products_configuration_guide_chapter09186a00803f5681.html