Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.0 in a W2000Server PC

From: Carlos (carlos_briege@hotmail.com)
Date: 08/02/02 

From: "Carlos" <carlos_briege@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:26:10 -0300

Can I run Sygate Personal Firewall Pro 5.0 in a W2000Server PC acting as a
Gateway (with NAT; between ADSL mdm and the SOHO network), or this product
is entended to use only on the client PCs of the network ?
If not, what SW is recommended ?
B.R.
Carlos

"karl [x y]" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
news:#YvvYqLMCHA.388@tkmsftngp09...
> I don't recommend using IPsec filtering that comes with Windows 2000, as
> there is no logging, alerting or intrusion detection. Sygate firewall
> supports windows 2000 server [free for non-commercial use], as does
blackice
> defender from www.iss.com These are my two preferences, and you can run
> them both together if you wish. You should run BID in paranoid mode if
you
> want to block attacks successfully. BID tends to have better detection of
> specific attacks by name, but the logging is aggregated and so tends to
hide
> details. Sygate has better logging and packet filtering rule writing
> ability, but works mainly by looking at port and IP address information, I
> would say it is a firewall that does not do much checking of the content
or
> payload of the incoming packets. Using both gives you the advantages of
> both and overcomes the shortcomings of both. BID costs around $30 and
> Sygate costs the same if you are a business user.
>
> I'm surprised to hear that norton and mcafee don't support win2000 server
> and am not sure I believe it. [I would not necessarily call them the
> leaders in this area] Kerio [formerly tiny personal firewall] and Zone
> Alarm [version 2, not the new version 3] are some choices liked by some
that
> might work on win2000 server.

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