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Home Network, router firewall vs Windows firewall Similar to these questions: What Firewall Rules Should Be Used For A Home-Based System and Firewall on VPS Use Windows Built In But more specifically I'm guessing that using both the Windows Firewall and a router's built in firewall are redundant? Which... Started by Nick on Thursday, May 14, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): So even though they are redundant, you may find that doubling up on a firewall probably won't hurt and it is nice to have a.... And yes in depth". I have always heard that a router/hardware firewall is better than a software firewall.

Open source firewall or commercial firewall In what cases would it be considered OK to use open-source firewalls to protect/secure/filter a company network? There seems to be many open source firewall alternatives (pfSense, smoothwall, m0n0wall) for a small business, that will save the company ... Started by Espo on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 9 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): The difference is that if it has a compelling feature Linux experience was using Coyote Linux as... . Anyway I don't think that there's any major issue for using open source firewall as long of commercial firewall solutions as well. Source".

Firewall reccomendations - a few colocated servers behind a firewall... I have to set up a few servers (4 right now, more in the future) behind a firewall. The data center would like to provide a single port with a block of IP addresses, and then I'll have the firewall forward the correct IP address to the correct server.... Started by on Friday, November 20, 2009, 6 posts by 6 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): If you are set .... There is always the possibility of just using each computer's built-in firewall rather than a separate appliance. With some sort of firewall software in it anyway , what's wrong with just removing the middleman on that.

Replacing a Cisco Pix Firewall with a D-LINK DFL-CPG310 Firewall Does anyone have any experience migrating from a Cisco PIX to a so-called non-enterprise grade firewall/router/vpn? I'm a non-networking professional (developer) that flunked the CCNA (only got a 730) and find myself missing the ease of configuration ... Started by Arnshea on Friday, July 31, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Other firewall manufacturers that you. That engineered their products from the ground up to be used by SMB .

SNMP being blocked by Windows 2008 Firewall even after firewall exceptions added I have a few Windows 2008 servers that I'm trying to setup SNMP monitoring. I have installed and configured the SNMP service. I have also turned on the exceptions from SNMP and SNMP Traps in the Windows Firewall exception list. However, SNMP traffic is... Started by Richard West on Thursday, June 25, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): Http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsserver2008r2general/thread/c04736cd-9f62-499a-99b1-8b64f79afc66 EDIT: I am assuming you'.... I haven't found a workaround yet. Some quick Googling seems to reveal that this is a bit of a known issue .

What ports should I be opening thru my firewall to access MySQL behind it I currently have a web server in front of a firewall and my MySQL DB behind the firewall. I have already opened port 3306 for tcp, but still cannot connect thru the firewall. Any ideas? Thanking all in advance :) Started by on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Got a new firewall.... MySQL was setup correectly, my firewall had gone south. There is not only the firewall that has to be configured To MySQL Database Server? Issue was not with MySQL. Are usually only configured for local access.

Firewall and Internet speed ? I have a doubt about my slow internet speed with third party firewall that I am using currently. Is it true that firewall can limit the internet speed ? Started by UK on Thursday, October 15, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Have you tried disabling the firewall and browsing (to safe sites obviously with and without a firewall.... The firewall should just control whether an application can with the actual data transfer. It shouldn't have a significant impact.

What are Inbound and Outbound Rules for Windows Firewall? Can anybody explain what are the inbound and outbound rules regarding Windows Firewall? What is their significance? Are they useful even when Windows Firewall is off? Started by Cute on Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): If you are running a Web Server on your computer then you will have to tell the Firewall that outsiders, Chrome, Opera...) have access to the.... If the Windows Firewall is turned off then it will have no effect, and the Inbound and Outbound.

Best firewall for Windows 7? What is the best firewall for Windows 7? Started by on Friday, September 04, 2009, 7 posts by 7 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): I go with the integrated Windows 7 .... But, for now... I'd expect a lot of competition after 7 settles down a bit . There is some talk of a better firewall built into Windows 7 , Here is a recent article on managing the Windows 7 firewall .

Stateful Firewall Rules Obeyed by Switch? I have a stateful firewall (pfsense) with a WAN and LAN port, with the LAN port connected to an unmanaged switch (DLink Gbit) and several computers connected to the switch. I was wondering if the switch obeyed firewall rules, i.e. if I blocked all traffic... Started by homeuser on Sunday, January 10, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at serverfault Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault): It works a lower layer in the network.... Joeqwerty is correct an unmanaged switch knows nothing. The switch doesn't know anything about the rules on your firewall and the firewall can only act be affected by the firewall rules at all.