Stonesoft was one of the first companies to come out with a highly available (HA) distributed firewall and VPN architecture. Because a VPN is really just a special type of firewall that secures the traffic between two endpoints, it only makes sense that they work together. The problem with deploying them together is you produce a single point of failure.
Eliminating this single point of failure is particularly important in enterprises deploying business-critical functions over the Internet and is an ideal setup for managed service providers. Stonesoft's StoneGate High Availability Firewall and VPN manages to circumvent the single point of failure problem by creating multiple firewall engines that act as failover devices. In this Daily Feature, I will demonstrate how to perform a basic installation of the StoneGate Firewall/VPN on the SPARCstation 20 platform (but it will install and perform well on all SPARCstations) within an existing network.