I had the same problem when I got my ADSL connection. There is not a great many "good-enough" firewalls easily accesible (i.e Freeware/Shareware) for Windows
First I had the idea to run Firewall 1 as I know it from my work, but I had not a good enough spare computer. I tried Winroute Pro for a while, but it suck due to lack of stateful inspection. It was a pain to configure all the ports needed for my Cisco VPN connection to the office (as not mention all my games). I looked a bit at Advanced Firewall from Deerfield (the creators of Wingate) but it was in an early beta and didn't do NAT, apparently it needed to work together with Wingate. RRAS Is simply not an option if you want to do more than surfing and mail, as it has the same limitation as Winroute. You could of cause get a copy of Firewall 1 or MS ISA server or similar REAL firewall, but they cost so much :) In MS case you need a computer good enough to run a complete Win2k + services, so it costs a lot even if you snag the CDs from the Office ;) In my case, I went for the Linux + IPTables alternative, partly from economical reason and partly from my wish to learn UNIX. If you do not want to go for the complete Linux/UNIX solution, I would look at http://www.freesco.com/. You need a 486 with 2 standard NICs, and you even get a menu driven interface :p Frankly, this seems to be the simplest solution, as a good, cheap and lightweight firewall for Windows seems impossible to find :( Probably because all Windows hobby-programmers (but for Davide ;)) are only interested in building the 9375:th almost identical ftp client. Best luck with your choise. Hans Birgander Security Consultant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Søren Knudsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 1:36 PM Subject: [xmail] [OT] Is there any good firewalls out there for win2K server??? > > Hi all! > > I have tried trials of various firewalls but havent found any that was = > good enough. All i need is to have a firewall that protects my server = > and my Lan (NAT'ted) behind it. It have to be simple to set up (as in = > xmail) without all those "wizards" that just confuses you. Just the = > posibility to set up a ruleset. > > Best regards > Soren K > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
