[thelist] Best SERVER Software Firewall

[Joshua Olson]

Hi gang,

The thread about the personal firewall got me thinking.  I'm looking at some
dedicated hosting at a place and they offer separate hardware based firewall
options.  The HW FW option is quite expensive and I'm hoping to find an
alternative.  I talked with them and they say they usually tweak MS Windows
2003's internal settings to block out unwanted traffic and they said it
works well.  A couple windows guru's I recently spoke to said that there's
no good way for Windows to natively firewall itself.  How about some of
these personal firewalls, zone alarm, etc?  Are any of them good enough/fast
enough to be viable on a web server? What about if the webserver is behind a
decent size pipe (eg, 5-10 mbit)?

Thanks.

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com
706.210.0168