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    Cool What firewall would you recommend?

    Whar is your best firewall you use?

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    Can I borrow this thread, sir? To save postage.... and to further expound upon this inquiry. I'll be commandeering this thread so what I ask now, is assistance. I am presenting the same question. Only I wish to install a corporate level firewall, on a mock- online game network. Pure generics. None the less, this trial is project status.. so I need to know the best firewall one would recommend for a Linux server hosting an online game. Is it really IPtables..?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ngboot
    Can I borrow this thread, sir? To save postage.... and to further expound upon this inquiry. I'll be commandeering this thread so what I ask now, is assistance. I am presenting the same question. Only I wish to install a corporate level firewall, on a mock- online game network. Pure generics. None the less, this trial is project status.. so I need to know the best firewall one would recommend for a Linux server hosting an online game. Is it really IPtables..?
    To follow up with SirDice's post... I would avoid having anything except the game software and necessary system components on the server. Any added components are going to make it more exploitable. Checkpoint and PIX both have excellent filtering capabilities, and are highly configurable and scalable. Although, they are very expensive. If you cannot afford a solution like that, my advice would be to set up a dedicated gateway using Linux and IPTables.

    EDIT: Snort maybe? Some IDS functionality?
    Real security doesn't come with an installer.

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    Corporate level firewall would be PIX or Checkpoint.. Both very expensive...
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    Well, I have never been in a corporate office till now (save those where I am a CUSTOMER!) but still, I would ask a question:

    Some of the experts I see here do rely on Hardware firewalls more than the software firewalls on ANY Operating System. That might be true. But does't that mean that they are not upgradable?
    "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

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    I used to have Norton and then avg, one day when I ran the avast antivirus I got about 200 virus(no kidding).
    Now I use Zonealarm (besides the windows firewall) and got almost no problem with virus, the ones I got came from pendrives. Don't know if there is any better firewall, that's the one I use

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    There really is no point - you already have a NAT firewall in the router, so even your default OS X firewall is really not doing anything for you. All you would be doing is adding layers of meaningless complexity and running yet more daemons to bog things down, for no real security gain.

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    In the corporate environment I recommend a Cisco ASA, a NetScreen, or Checkpoint on Nokia. I would never ever ever run any software firewall on a windows platform in a corporate environment.

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    For our generic project we're gonna use one of the 500 series Cisco pix models.

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    As SireDice said, if you want corporate level, your going to be going with Cisco Pix, Checkpoint, sonicwall, Juniper...etc etc.

    IPtables would be effective...another alternative would be one I use on my linux servers that I also do some game hosting on. That would be.

    APF
    http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php

    APF basically lets you till it what ports you want open, and it closes the rest. Simple yet effective. It also lets you specify ports before you start the service which is nice. Especially if you configure the servers remotely like I do. Lets you not lock yourself out


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    Bah..didn't see the second page.

    I've worked with the Pix 535 before. Good firewall.
    Last edited by cheyenne1212; October 13th, 2007 at 12:08 AM.
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