RE: Simple Firewall

["Roger A. Grimes" <roger () banneretcs com>]

NT 4 and above (workstation and server products) support IP Filtering.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edel SM [mailto:sierra2 () gmail com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:33 AM
To: G Farnham
Cc: security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: Simple Firewall

i'm not sure, but i think the family of windows servers (except nt4) do
support packet filtering built in.

--edel


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 13:00:09 -0800, G Farnham <gfarnham () gmail com>
wrote:
> Does anyone know of a real simple software firewall for Windows 2003
Server?
> The application is for a game server.  Basically, the server needs to 
> send udp in and out of the server as fast as possible for 50 or so 
> clients running a first person shooter.
>
> All I need the firewall to do is check the source IP against a deny 
> list and either deny or permit it.
>
> The goal is to have a minimum impact on performance as latency is 
> everything in online gaming.
> Norton,  Macafee, ZoneAlarm, etc all seem to be to bloated.
> Don't need any checking on outbound
> Don't need any checking based on port
>
> The built in firewall and IP filtering do not support a deny list.
> WinXP SP2 is not applicable as this is Win 2003 Server.
>
> This is for a hosted server, so I can't add any hardware.
>
> GDF