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Hot Standby and Load Balancing

I readed that Load Balancing is made "trought HotStandBy".
What exactly this mean?
If i have two firewall in Load Balancing (Enterprise license) or High Availability (Professional license) and one of this go down, what will occur to his active connections?

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0 jabberwocky over 23 years ago

Load balancing, in my understanding, simply splits load across two NICs, so you get more bandwidth to a specified connection.

High availablility, or hot failover, is a different thing. If the primary firewall fails the seconday will take over and keep all connections alive.

In theory.
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0 jabberwocky over 23 years ago

Load balancing, in my understanding, simply splits load across two NICs, so you get more bandwidth to a specified connection.

High availablility, or hot failover, is a different thing. If the primary firewall fails the seconday will take over and keep all connections alive.

In theory.
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0 squeeze over 23 years ago in reply to jabberwocky

load balancing does not work for multiple lines. it works just for dnatted (web-)servers to balance incoming load...

HA is hot standby, but afaik it's impossible to take over the active connections.. (how?)
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0 jabberwocky over 23 years ago in reply to squeeze

I think by "load balancing" you mean "quality of service".

Then again I'm probably confused, which happens a lot. There is a method of load balancing between multiple NICs to get higher bandwidth, but its probably not what I'm thinking.
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