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You already have a network team. Give them the depth they expect.

Failover that keeps connections alive, routes that update themselves, and a full record of every change. Firecradle scales to a network with a team behind it.

HA with state sync · BGP/OSPF · full audit trail

What a network team actually needs

These are not edge cases. They are the daily reality of running a network people depend on.

One box going down cannot take the network with it
A single point of failure is not acceptable once hundreds of people rely on the network every day.
Growth means more paths, not fewer
New sites, new links, and new vendors all need to fit into routing that already works.
The team needs its own logins
A shared admin password does not scale past a handful of engineers, and it makes accountability impossible.
An auditor asks who changed what, and when
Compliance reviews expect a record, not someone’s memory of what happened last quarter.

Stays up when hardware does not

A larger network cannot depend on one box or one internet line.

High availability with state sync
Two firewalls run as a pair. If one fails, the other takes over with every live connection already copied over — see high availability and state sync.
Dynamic routing
Routers learn paths from each other using BGP and OSPF, instead of someone typing routes in by hand. See multi-WAN and routing.
Multi-WAN across every site
Run more than one internet connection per site. If one line fails, traffic moves to the other automatically.
Firecradle high availability screen showing two paired firewalls with a synced status, current active unit, and live connection-state sync counter
Two units, one live state. A failure switches over without dropping a connection.

Segmentation and control at scale

More people and more devices mean access has to be given out carefully, not shared around.

VLAN segmentation at scale
Split a large network into many separate networks without running new cable for each one.
Login against your existing directory
Sign in with the company’s own Active Directory, LDAP, or RADIUS server, instead of a separate password list just for the firewall.
Role-based access for the whole team
Role-based access gives each engineer only the access their job needs, with their own login and their own audit trail.

Prove it to an auditor, not just yourself

A network team also has to show its work. Firecradle keeps the record for you.

Compliance snapshots
Check your setup against PCI, HIPAA, and CIS-style checklists and save the result, ready for an audit — see security services.
Central logging and monitoring
Send logs to your existing tools over syslog and SNMP. See monitoring & reports.
Config as code, and a real CLI
Manage settings as text files you can review and reuse. See config as code and the CLI.
An audit trail of every change
Every setting change is logged with who made it and when. See config safety & history.
Firecradle compliance screen showing a checklist scored against PCI, HIPAA, and CIS-style controls with pass and fail counts and a saved snapshot date
A saved snapshot of your security posture, ready to hand to an auditor.

How network teams actually use this

One appliance fails, and nobody notices

The problem: A firewall dies in the middle of the workday. Nobody wants a war-room call over it.

What Firecradle does:
The paired firewall is already holding a live copy of every connection
It takes over automatically, with no manual failover step
Calls and file transfers keep running through the switch
The failed unit is swapped out later, outside working hours

An auditor asks to see every firewall change this year

The problem: A compliance review asks: who changed this rule, and when, and why.

What Firecradle does:
Every change is logged with the user, the time, and what changed
Compliance snapshots show your security posture at any past date
Config as code shows exactly what was deployed, in plain text
Nothing has to be reconstructed from memory or guesswork

Built for a network with a team behind it

Everything here is part of the appliance

High availability failover with continuous connection-state sync
Dynamic routing over BGP and OSPF
Multi-WAN with automatic failover per site
VLAN segmentation that scales to a large network
Login against Active Directory, LDAP, or RADIUS
Role-based access with a per-engineer audit trail
Compliance snapshots against PCI, HIPAA, and CIS-style checklists
Central logging over syslog and SNMP
Config as code and a full CLI
A logged history of every setting change, by whom and when

Common questions

Does failover really keep active connections alive?

Yes. The paired firewall continuously receives a copy of every live connection through state sync, so a call or file transfer keeps running when the backup takes over.

Can Firecradle check logins against our existing Active Directory or LDAP?

Yes. Firecradle can check usernames and passwords against your company’s existing Active Directory, LDAP, or RADIUS server, so there is no second password list to manage.

Can our existing monitoring tools see Firecradle’s status?

Yes. Firecradle sends logs and health data over syslog and SNMP, the same standards most monitoring tools already read.

Can we manage Firecradle as config files instead of clicking through screens?

Yes. Settings can be written and applied as config as code through the CLI, so changes can be reviewed and reused like any other code.

Give your network team the depth they expect

High availability, dynamic routing, and a full audit trail, in one appliance. Try it free for 30 days.

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