Re: Firewalls, what would you use? or would recommend?

benson_james@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi, im looking for a firewall for a Windows XP Professional 64-bit
computer, the computer is mainly running game servers, ventrilo
servers, that sort of stuff.
What would you use in this scenario?

Why not stopping everything without the exception of the offered
services? Or at least using the Windows-Firewall to filter anything
else away?

Additionally, it could be a good idea to check traffic for containing
attacks onto exploits in such servers. Is there documentation about the
used network protocols?

If so, then perhaps using a Linux or BSD box and implementing protocol
filters yourself may help. Unfortunately I don't know ready made software
for game servers.

Yours,
VB.
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