Re: 3rd Party Firewalls on Domain Controllers.



Bill-MT wrote:
> I've been looking into the features of the firewall now included with
> W2K3 sp1 and while I think its great MS is now including a firewall
> on it's server software. I'm not sure their 'first iteration'
> firewall has a rich enough feature set to do specialized rule logging
> or selectivitly block problem machines.
>
> So, I'm wondering what 3rd party firewalls people have been
> installing on their Windows AD Domain Controllers, specifically on
> Windows 2000 server Domain Controllers right now, but eventually on
> Windows 2003 server Domain Controllers.
>
> Anyone who has an opinion on or experience with this issue please
> reply to this thread. I'd be curious to know the following....
>
> - What 3rd party firewall software has worked on Domain Controllers.
> - And any DC specific configuration issues I should be aware of.
>
> - What 3rd party firewall software is a problem (has not worked well)
> on Domain Controllers.
>
> - What firewall features are important with reguard to firewall
> software installed on Domain Contollers.
>
> Thanks in advance for any info you can offer on this topic.

I don't run software firewalls on servers...except maybe ISA.
I go for hardware appliances.


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