Re: Firewalls, what would you use? or would recommend?

benson_james@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi, thanks for replying, yeah the server was previously running Linux,
> and running well, but some games now dont support dedicated server
> for this platform so the move to Windows is pretty much forced.
>
> As with the Windows Firewall, never really used it outside and
> internal network, being an MS product anyway im not 100% confident
> that it will be secure enough!

Why would you care, since your server is running on Windows anyway?
Windows is a Microsoft product too, y'know, and every software firewall
will be running on top of it.

As VB said: stop all services that you don't need on that box. Remove
all software that isn't needed to maintain the server. If you feel you
need a firewall: running it on a separate box would be a good idea,
because software firewalls will hog resources that you'd probably rather
use for the game servers.

cu
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