A peering relationship among two or more network appliances is established through an exchange of control messages among the network appliances. The peering relationship defines a cluster of peered network appliances, and at each network appliance of the cluster traffic flow state information for all...http://www.google.fr/patents/US8130747?utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBrevet US8130747 - System and method of traffic inspection and stateful connection forwarding among geographically dispersed network appliances organized as clusters
System and method of traffic inspection and stateful connection forwarding ...