Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Security and Technology : Windows 2000 Software Firewall

[SimonDurkee]

We use the built in firewall on all our 2003 servers. But, we need a good software firewall solution for our 2000 servers.

Do you have any recommendations?

[Jeff - Exceed]

I reccomend IPSec which is proprietry and pre-installed.

I found you a guide; http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mchugha/w2kfirewall.htm

[SimonDurkee]

IPSEC seemed to cause issues when there were too many filters added or the server bandwidth utilization was high.

Has anyone used IPSEC in a production shared server environment?

[besty]

How about visnetic firewall

[activelobby4u]

yes, ipsec has been used and successfully configured in production servers handling more than 400 websites and 'hasnt' caused bandwidth or high cpu utilization issues till now

[Akash.Kava]

In network connections, you can click on TCP/IP settings and in click on Advanced and then click on Options Tab, and then you have option of TCP/IP filtering. you can filter TCP/UDP packets here.