Re: Firewalls, Would do you use? or would you recommend?

Spack wrote:
> Duane wrote on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:50:51 GMT:
>
>
>>benson_james@yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>>VB agree with you there - NAT is not possible with the solution,
>>>besides the fact the admin will be a pain in the arse with all the
>>>services, the server will be hosted in London, we are planning on
>>>running alot of games! BF2, looking at hosting a 64 player server,
>>>Ghost recon - as many as possible, 2 x RVS server - upto 24 players,
>>>maybe not all at once but there will be alot going on...
>>>
>>>NAT - Impossible!
>>>
>>>Any other suggestions on Firewall Application compatible with Windows
>>>XP 64 Bit.
>>
>>A FW application that's running on the XP workstation that's worth
>>anything -- come on man?
>>
>>Why don't you take it up to a server O/S Win 2K or Win 2k3? You may find
>>server based FW applications there that that may work for you.
>>
>>You do know that Windows XP licensing is only going to allow 10 concurrent
>>connections to it don't you?
>
>
> The limit is only concurrent connections for the following services: File
> Services, Print Services, Internet Information Services, and remote access.
> This is clearly stated in the EULA.
>
> XP Pro will happily handle more than 10 TCP connections to an application -
> I've had a 32 player BF1942 server running in the past. But I agree, the
> server OS is a better option for a large scale system as it's tweaked for
> the networking side, and has no need for fancy graphical work.
>

The NT based workstation and server versions of the O/S(s) are basically
the same for the core and has the same graphical UI(s) for the most
part. The server version may have a little more server based things
incorporated and you can adjust the user licensing on the server
version. The workstation version of a NT based O/S the licensing for
number of users is static.

The issues I have seen with 10 concurrent connections has been on on p2p
and IIS. for XP pro. So you may be right on the other stuff in that
regard on TCP connections.

But the OP looking for some host based FW solution that's running on a
XP pro workstation that's worth $.02 well what can I say about it.

Duane :)
Received on Mon May 1 01:01:19 2006