Re: Firewall

From: Jeff Cochran (jcochran.nospam_at_naplesgov.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 13:20:28 GMT

On Tue, 25 May 2004 09:08:34 -0700, "Adam Thornton"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Here's the deal. We are trying to implement a kind
>of "poor man's firewall." My question is how easy is it to
>place two NIC cards into a Windows 2000 machine (one card
>having access to the router/ISP, the other having access
>to a switch) to have a firewall for security purposes.

Quite easy. Except you have to add firewall software to the system.
:)

>We
>were wanting to test the security capabilities of Windows
>2000 and its firewall. Is this possible?

W2K has no firewall.

>Are there any
>other cheaper alternatives?

Plenty. Smoothwall for example.

>Is this even worthwhile?

A firewall isn't "worthwhile", it's a requirement. Linux-based
firewall systems such as Smoothwall are free, relatively easy to
configure and can run on a system you'd normally discard. Plenty of
SOHO hardware firewalls also exist that would be inexpensive.

Jeff

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