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You are always limited by the bottleneck. Check the traffic throughput of the firewall device on the manufacturer website and if it is equal to or greater than your WAN/LAN infrastructure, then you...

I'm glad that other people understand the concept - I am still unsure of what is meant to be happening...... would a failsafe firewall only be protecting a failsafe WAN ?

Or am I of the...

This is not a problem - I am unsure of what your expectations are and it seems that you are not sure of what you want to acheive exactly, or for what reasons.

Thanks gore, you hit the nail on...

I understand. So your reason for having mutliple WANs and firewalls is purely redundancy?

No load balancing or better security in mind?



DNS is a very complex technology -

Check...

IMO, 2 boundary firewalls protecting a single WAN must be configured in serial and the configuration must be identical (refer to my earlier post) - and IMO would be completely redundant.

If you...

Parallel in what way? Are you describing two boundary firewalls protecting the same WAN connection? Or do you have multiple WANs?

If you are looking for 2 parallel firewalls protecting a single...

If you are planning to put a firewall on a box (such as ISA server) and the box falls over sideways.... internet traffic will stop/be denied by default as the box is no longer handling and forwarding...