RE: Best software based firewall for Windows 2003 IIS ?

From: Jason (Jason_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:06:02 -0700

Windows 2003 has a firewall built that you can use. Internet Connection Sharing, Internet Connection Firewall, and Network Bridge are included only with Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, and the 32-bit version of Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition. I find that works just well has zone alarm. You clould also look into IP filtering, but Firewall would make more sense.

"Paul" wrote:

> I have a Windows 2003 server located at a remote hosting facility. No
> hardware firewall is available, so I am looking for an affordable,
> straightforward Zone-Alarm type software firewall for Windows 2003 Server.
> (maybe ZA *is* the solution?) I am running IIS, FTP, and Remote Desktop
> services (port 3389). ZA is great on my desktops, but on the server I'd
> like to avoid ZA's "learning curve" where you have to answer pop ups
> allowing this service or that as various services access TCP ports.
>
> Ideally at the time of installation, I would like to be able to explicitly
> specify the RDP port remain open so when the system reboots, I'm not locked
> out of my server and forced to call the remote hosting company tech support
> to manually configure the firewall for me.
>
> From other posts I've read the built in ICF won't work with a server with
> multiple static IP's, and TCP filtering isn't selective about which
> interface can be filtered (plus in my testing it seemed to have trouble with
> port 80 IIS)
>
> Anybody have experience with ZoneAlarm or other software firewalls in a
> Windows 2003 Server environment?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Paul
>
>
>

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