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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?"

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  1. Re:OpenBSD, of course! by Krach42 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes, but IPTables is so.... ugly...

    I mean, pf is just so much nice to interact with.

    In linux, I download a firewall script that does all the IPTables work for me.

    But with OpenBSD, I sit there and craft my own pf.conf, and I know exactly the behaviour that I'm to expect, and want.

    But yes. Linux+IPTables is still way better than Windows + software firewall.

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    I am unamerican, and proud of it!
  2. Re:What's wrong with windows firewall by Lew+Payne · · Score: 0, Troll

    || "...then you're too hooked on symantics and ignoring the point of my post int he first place."

    If you're too hooked on programming to spell "semantics" correctly, then don't be surprised
    to find yourself subconsciously defining "he" as an integer (he int) in your replies.

    Or was that some feeble attempt at semasiology?