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FAULT TOLERANT FIREWALL SANDWICHES

Goddard, 2007

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11944202239950105701
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Goddard S
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CSE Journal Articles

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Firewall sandwich configurations having improved levels of system availability as well as an application-space implementation of a firewall load balancer (FLB) which provides greater operational flexibility while reducing the need for custom hardware and/or operating system …
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