Re: ISA Server for Firewall - Recommendations Please

From: Interflex (interflex@hotmail.com)
Date: 12/30/02 

From: interflex@hotmail.com (Interflex)
Date: 30 Dec 2002 08:31:06 -0800

"David" <davidwnh@adelphia.net> wrote in message news:<nXOP9.39441$VA5.7541254@news1.news.adelphia.net>...
> I use ISA server and am quite happy with it. When considering its price et
> al. I think it is best served in an environment in which you will be not
> only firewalling inbound traffic but also where you want to control your
> enterprises outbound access. If you are simply looking to protect a
> webserver you may be better served with something that requires less
> overhead and provides only the functionality that you require. Are you
> running a standalone IIS webserver? Do you already have a firewall at the
> perimeter? Do you need to protect this server internally as well as from the
> internet? If you have a perimeter firewall you may only need to configure
> your perimeter firewall for basic packet filtering to your webserver and add
> IDS and URL scanning to the server itself. If you need to protect the server
> internally as well you could use a very inexpensive router to do the more
> extensive filtering. Of course in either case this is in addition to the
> usual os "hardening" of the webserver itself.
>
> All in all are you just looking to protect just a webserver or do you have
> other firewalling needs as well?
>
> "Interflex" <interflex@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:92c70b2c.0212291056.14a7a6bc@posting.google.com...
> > I am trying to get a handle on the correct firewall to use for our
> > webserver. We get about 1 Million Page views a month/10Gb of traffic.
> > Should I use ISA or should I go with something like SonicWall, Nokia,
> > or PIX? Does anyone have some experince with ISA and maybe some other
> > types of firewalls?

This is the situation:

a) We currently have some servers hosted with Dell Host
b) They take to long to reboot our servers (sometimes 2hrs) if we have
a problem
c) We would like to move our servers to a local ISP so we have
physical access for issues
d) We will have two servers behind the firewall, an IIS Server and a
Database Server
e) We are leaning toward sometype of firewall which is GUI based that
we can administer from the home office.
f) No VPN will be required.
g) Port forwarding should be included

Relevant Pages

  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open the ISA Server management console, ... On the ISA Server computer, stop the Microsoft Firewall service. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open the ISA Server management console, ... On the ISA Server computer, stop the Microsoft Firewall service. ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: OWA page not displayed Outside
    ... Open ISA 2006 management console. ... Expand the server node and highlight 'Monitoring'. ... Click 'Configure Firewall Logging'. ... |> internal client as both the web proxy client and firewall client? ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • RE: Firewall service and remoteaccess service shut down frequently
    ... Do you have run the CEICW after installing the ISA components? ... please open SBS server management console, ... Click the Add Adapter button, and add your internal network adapter ... Meanwhile, from the subject, you said you the firewall service and RRAS ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs)
  • Re: SMTP and POP3 through ISA 2004
    ... I've installed the Firewall Service and the error ... > You can not access the Firewall Service on the ISA unless you install the ... >> server available on the External public network ... >> to ge tthe following error from outlook when attempting to retrieve ...
    (microsoft.public.isa)
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