Re: high availability pix and routers

From: CaptainX0r (captainx0r_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 04:59:42 -0700

What if we use something like this:
http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=090652 ? I don't
know if that will show up or not, but it's an RJ-45 Modular T Adaptor.
 Since only one line is ever going to be active at any one time there
shouldn't be any problems. And we spend $40 on 4 of them rather than
however much it costs for more interfaces on the routers and firewalls
(and configure them, etc.)

Sound reasonable? Any reason not to do this?

> I think you already have the answer... I suspect you're gonna need 2
> interfaces connecting to 2 interfaces. Redundancy always costs :-(
>
>
> paul
>
>
> > How do you physically connect 2 routers running HSRP to 2 PIX
> > firewalls in failover mode, and maintain high availability without
> > using 2 interfaces per device? Is this possible? I think this should
> > be pretty basic, but everything I come up with makes things more
> > complicated, introduces single points of failure, or doesn't make
> > sense.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.