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What is the Best Firewall for Servers?

Posted by Cliff on from the hot-protection-for-heavy-iron dept.

Sushant Bhatia asks: "I maintain a bunch of servers (Win 2003/XP Pro) at our labs in the university. Of late, the number of attacks on the computers has been more noticeable. The university provides firewall software (Kerio) but that doesn't work with Win 2003 (works with XP). And so we keep getting hit by zombie machines taken over in the Education Department or from Liberal Arts :-). So what does the Slashdot crowd use when they need to secure their Linux and Windows servers? Does it cost less than US$100?"

2 of 673 comments (clear)

  1. Re:at the risk of getting flamed into submission.. by kentheman · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    How on earth is just naming an OS Insightful???

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    ... sometimes I fly with the white swan to my Liffey home.
  2. Re:What's wrong with windows firewall by Lew+Payne · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    || A software firewall is not a replacement for a hardware firewall.

    So, do you know of a firewall that's hard-wired and does not run code (firmware)?
    After all, I don't want any firewall that has to run software to do its job,
    even if that software is programmed into firmware.