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Thank you for your input<br />
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<a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/09/cisco-asa-high-availability/" rel="ugc">http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/09/cisco-asa-high-availability/</a><br />
I checked the link above. it is explained in simple way but I am not sure if that's all it needs
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Thank you for your input


http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/09/cisco-asa-high-availability/ [http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/09/cisco-asa-high-availability/]
I checked the link above. it is explained in simple way but I am not sure if that's all it needs

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in a network that has more than one ASA firewall appliances, how do they create sort of Fault tolerance and/or load balancing between both appliances?<br />
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* if one appliance crashes, how is the traffic going to be routed to the other appliances<br />
* if appliance 1 is heavily used how do we route traffic to appliance 2 <br />
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Thanks
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in a network that has more than one ASA firewall appliances, how do they create sort of Fault tolerance and/or load balancing between both appliances?

* if one appliance crashes, how is the traffic going to be routed to the other appliances
* if appliance 1 is heavily used how do we route traffic to appliance 2 

Thanks

Firewall loadbalancing and fault tolerance

Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

Cisco

A router is a networking device that forwards data packets between computer networks. Routers perform the "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. The most familiar type of routers are home and small office cable or DSL routers that simply pass data, such as web pages, email, IM, and videos between computers and the Internet. More sophisticated routers, such as enterprise routers, connect large business or ISP networks up to the powerful core routers that forward data at high speed along the optical fiber lines of the Internet backbone. Though routers are typically dedicated hardware devices, use of software-based routers has grown increasingly common.

Routers

Hardware-based firewalls provide more sophisticated protection for inbound and outbound traffic than the simple Windows software firewall or the basic NAT firewalls found in routers. These devices implement techniques such as stateful packet inspection, deep packet inspection, and content filtering; and may include built-in antivirus and anti-malware protection.