The proper way to bypass inline services for critical infrastructure
Rating: 10 out of 10
February 11, 2020
AM
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
We currently use Ixia Bypass switches to allow us to add FireEye devices inline to our network on a Layer 2 path. FireEye does not support link state propagation from the upstream and downstream links inline, so if we have an outage of a FireEye box then we would lose that layer two link and a fail-over would not occur without link state propagation. The Ixia Bypass handles this for us and allows a fail-close setup should the monitored device go down in this case the FireEye
- Link state monitoring
- Service monitoring of the stub devices
- Link state propagation
- Battery backup for power loss
- While expensive, it has reduced our downtime due to the FireEYE outages and upgrades
- Increased our cost for the FireEye which is really a negative of the FireEye and not the Ixia.
F5 while allows the load balancing aspect would not propagate link state as well.