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firewall beteen 2 uplinks and 2 redundant switches

Hello Experts,

we have somevservers in a datacenter. at the moment we dont have a physical firewall in place.

We have 2 reduntant uplinks (each from a core router) connected to 2 redundant switches. so each uplink is connected to each switch and the switches themselves are connected to eachother.

we want a physical firewall between the uplinks and the switches.

what is the best way to do this and which type of firewall can we use for this. And will there be a decrease of network performance?

thanks in advance for the help.

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You have to use 2 firewall with "High Availability". You can use, Cisco, Juniper, Sonicwall products...You have a lot of products, it depends of your budget & fonctionnality you want to use.
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OK, so the set up stays the same, beside the fact that between each uplink and switch there will be one firewall? Do the firewall have to be connected to each other?

What type of firewall is low budget. And can it be done with 1 firewall? This is a small environment that is mostly used for testing.

Thanks.
You can use Sonicwall Firewall. They are not very expensive (for exemple TZ210 for small environnement).

If you use only one Firewall, you will not have "high availability" but if it's only for testing, I think only one firewall is OK.

Be careful with you firewall choice; you have to size your firewall with your usage (nb of user, bandwidth...).
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Hi Benjamin,

Thank you. Can this particular firewall also be used as high availability at a later point if we want to?

In case of 2 firewalls, do we have to maintain the config on both?

Thanks.
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