topic VRRP - yes or no in General Topics

VRRP - yes or no

HeikoAnkenbrand — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 17:55:26 GMT

I see a lot of articles about VRRP in the last days.

You can read some opinions and insights in these threads:

ClusterXL - standby cannot reach gateway

Do we still need VRRP in future versions or is ClusterXL enough?

VRRP - YES	4
VRRP - NO	43

Re: VRRP - yes or no

Maarten_Sjouw — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:04:24 GMT

We have and we still use VRRP also for other reasons, not in a cluster environment. This is in a very special setup with a network loadbalancer / prioritizer / compresion unit. Here the default route is shared between a router and the FW based on VRRP.

Re: VRRP - yes or no

Lars_Skerka — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:11:57 GMT

We have over 600 Check Point customers and have all switched to ClusterXL. I see no need to use VRRP.

Best regards,

Lars

Re: VRRP - yes or no

Timothy_Hall — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 22:10:38 GMT

Right, one of the possible use cases for VRRP is using an external load balancer as I mentioned here:

https://community.checkpoint.com/thread/6079-what-is-clusterxl-and-vrrp#comment-10351

--
My book "Max Power: Check Point Firewall Performance Optimization"
now available via http://maxpowerfirewalls.com.