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I need to take my own advice more often. Someone comes to me with a computer issue? First think I’ll ask is, “Did you reboot it yet?” Heck, it is written at the top of the big whiteboard in my office. I don’t care if it is Windows, Mac or Linux. That’s where I always prefer I’m in firewall/router hell. After a long time of pondering, shuffling and avoiding I had to bite the bullet and put a firewall in between our production web servers and database. I started with a Linksys RVS4000 that I already had in the office. Seemed like a good option as it offers 1GB on both sides. The I manage a handful of WatchGuard Firebox Edge series firewalls at work. I’m generally pretty happy with them and have found that they do just what I need done. Lately I’ve been wrestling with some provider issues and have been trying to get some better data on sporadic network outages. That caused me to look closer How to tell it may be a long night: From under 1 MBits/sec to 10 all at once. *bam* The WatchGuard Edge X55e firewall is not doing well with this sort of volume. It dumps the VPN connections not long after each reboot and then seems to stop responding after 20 or 30 minutes. A reboot gets Last May (has it really been that long?) I had an article about Proxy ARP and my challenges in trying to accomplish something along those lines on the cheap. I had some good comments but, to be honest, didn’t totally comprehend the solutions offered. From that post: So here’s the poop: I have a handful of servers |
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