Highly Available IBM eNetwork Firewall Using HACMP or eNetwork Dispatcher

This redbook is intended as a self-contained guide for readers who want to implement a highly available firewall solution with IBM eNetwork Firewall for AIX. The authors assume that readers have a working knowledge at least of either eNetwork Firewall or HACMP/eND(eNetwork dispatcher). Readers who want to get further information on any of the products referenced in this book may refer to the related documentation's cited in Appendix G, “Related Publications” on page 283.

We do not contend that this book explored every possible highly available scenario. There are many other variations in the real world. However we hope the book will help readers develop their own scenarios. The primary objective of this redbook is get acquainted with this new solution and to provide insights into what the authors thought about the choices made.

The contents of the book can be divided into two parts. The first part discusses high availability with IBM HACMP and the second part discusses high availability with IBM eNetwork Dispatcher.

Chapter 1. The Design of Firewalls
Chapter 2. Introduction to HA solutions
Chapter 3. An HA firewall example using HACMP
Chapter 4. HA firewall examples using eNetwork Dispatcher

Publish Date
16 July 1999

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Author(s)
DaeSung (David) Chung
Christian Emmerich
Rob Priffer
Bernhard Weiser
Viktor Mraz

ISBN
0738413607

IBM Form Number
SG24-5136-00

Number of pages
292