Re: Best free firewall software

In article <4dng9iF1aoa58U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sebastian Gottschalk <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Stewart wrote:
Is there any goog free firewalls out there?

I guess you mean for Windows?

Well, Windows Firewall is pretty fine. IPsec doesn't work stateful, and
IPFilter is pretty lousy to configure.

Of third-party products Wipfw (Win-IPFW) is the only serious one, even
though it doesn't offer packet generation/manipulation yet.

Comodo has an OpenBSD's 'pf' port, but they messed it up with bundling
application control.


If the box that connects you to your DSL or cable internet does NAT it
makes an effective brick wall firewall for incomming connections
unless you screw with the factory settings and let something in.

There are a bunch of internet port scanner services that can test you
from the outside. They'll tell you if you have any ports open.

If you can dedicate an old PC to the tast there's IPCop and m0m0.



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