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I set up a client to proxy Web traffic through the antivirus blade's IP. I then tried to download an executable containing the Happy99 virus, and Trend's VirusWall blocked it. Then I gave the VAP assigned to the Trend application a higher priority than the IDS VAP group and failed the Trend. The X40 took down the IDS and brought it back up as a Trend blade. The device can also be configured to fail over to one of the two firewall blades, but one firewall will always be active.
The physical interfaces can also be set up for failover. I assigned the gigabit ports as primaries and the 10/100 UTP ports as backups. When I unplugged the fiber cable, the device failed over seamlessly. You can configure the X40 so it will switch back to the master when it comes online or so an administrator must switch it back manually.
Michael J. DeMaria is an associate technology editor based at Network Computing's Syracuse University Real-World Labs®. Write to him at [email protected].
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