@Shadow wrote: Both, thank you for the response. what I meant by cluster, you have two clusters, 1-active the other standby on active cluster you have minimum of 2x devices which are active, and the same amount of devices on the standby cluster all traffic see as the Active cluster as primary. all active devices in the primary(active)cluster, their standby is on the standby cluster. this design is used for very sensitive traffic, example forex market, where milliseconds count. anyway thanks, radio/ScottF, will check the link too with load balance(but that's not the design I am after) Like what @ScottF already mentioned what you're wanting to do is essentially "front end" your "FW service" with a load balancer that validates if the 2 pairs of FW environments are functional and routing traffic to each service appropriately. As you mentioned forex, it seems you'd be better off looking for hardware built for that space.
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