Re: which firewall
From: Wolfgang Kueter (wolfgang@shconnect.de)Date: 05/25/02
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From: Wolfgang Kueter <wolfgang@shconnect.de> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 02:32:52 +0200
Ernie wrote:
> Hello
>
> My company's web server is a Win 2K box, IIS, a few hundred to a few
> thousand hits a day.
Any old Pentium 100 with 64 MB RAM running Apache on Linux, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD etc. will handle that with an average load below 0.3
We're looking for a firewall product. Ease of
> administration is very important and low cost is somewhat important.
> Suggestions?
Insert any bootable CD with free Uni* clone, install secure OS, limit
the services to the neccessary minimum (http, maybe https), install
Apache, configure it, run it.
> My boss has a copy of Norton Personal Firewall 2001 which he wants me
> to install. Opinions?
Your boss is clieless, simply forget IIS, forget Norton Personal
Firewall, consider using a more secure system. Maybe you get the
license fee for the win2K server back.
Wolfgang
-- A foreign body and a foreign mind, never welcome in the land of the blind. Peter Gabriel, Not one of us, 1980
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