1. Background

Nokia, one of the most popular gateway security product vendor in the world, has actually implemented VRRP technology into their IPSO system. IPSO is the operating system running on Nokia IP security products. Of course, Nokia routers can work together with other products to create a secure Internet gateway, most notably, Checkpoint. A Nokia router with installed Checkpoint firewalling software gives you an enterprise grade firewall that is easy to managed with an intuitive interface and packed with some of the best features around.

Of course, what good is the best firewall available if it is still a single point of failure when used alone? The solution: a Nokia and Checkpoint firewall combination that uses VRRP for redundancy. It cannot get any better than this! If the only firewall in my network goes kaput, what shall I do? Get another firewall to replace it (manually of course)! What if this can be simplified with the use of two firewalls working together. Imagine this, one firewall goes down, the standby firewall is intelligent enough to know that there has been a failure and seamlessly takes over the role. This process is known as high availability and this can be achieved without much effort in Nokia Checkpoint secure Internet gateways with the use of VRRP. Interested to know how this can be configured? READ ON!: )