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  • Do you think, i can aggregate the 2 Links in the wathchguard m570. I tooked a look in the datasheets but i didnt find any think about its limits concerning making load balancing Commented Oct 29, 2019 at 20:14
  • I'm not familiar with Watchguards, but load balancing is just a matter of stateful policy-based routing, so whether one or more WAN links is used shouldn't matter much and the same limits should apply. Commented Oct 29, 2019 at 20:32
  • Question should be whether fw should be placed before or after load balancers, what is the best practice. Commented Mar 7, 2024 at 8:36
  • @hakkican There's no single 'best' way to do it. As stated above I'd go without the load balancers unless there's a rigid requirement to use them. If there is, it all depends on what the firewall can and can't do. If it's up to the task, you should put the firewall in front of everything. Commented Mar 7, 2024 at 11:00
  • best practice means widely chosen or applied based on some reasoning, it is a design issue and decision, why should someone put the firewall in front of everything? and why should someone put it behind the load balancers? I am after some explanation; pros, cons, etc. Commented Mar 8, 2024 at 6:01