Re: OT : Firewall for webserver

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2006


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texte = Tom, We use a software firewall - http://www.pfsense.com/ The cool thing about this software is that the distro comes complete with the OS. And it is designed to have a very small footprint. As such we have a small box with no drives, just a compact flash card that the entire OS and application installs on. It takes very little room and in a co-loc environment you can maybe even stick it in the same space as a 1U rack server (if the server isn't too deep). They also offer a fail over capability. I am not the one that did the initial setup, but I do administer it on occasion. The small box we use (with the motherboard and alum. case) cost about $200.00 all told. You can get a small Linksys (I think) model 45wrt which allows you to make lots of modifications to and there are a number of people that have released modified firmware for that unit to provide better firewall capabilities than what was initially provided with the unit. Hope this helps. Dale Tom Duke wrote: >Hi all, > >We're looking at co-locating a server (Windows 2003 based) with our ISP. >I was just wondering what firewalls people were using to protect their >webservers - are there ones that are particularly suited to use with >webservers ? > >Thanks >- Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: OT : Firewall for webserver ( "Tom Duke" 2006)
  2. Re: OT : Firewall for webserver ( Donovan Brooke 2006)
  3. Re: OT : Firewall for webserver ( Dale Lists 2006)
  4. OT : Firewall for webserver ( "Tom Duke" 2006)
Tom, We use a software firewall - http://www.pfsense.com/ The cool thing about this software is that the distro comes complete with the OS. And it is designed to have a very small footprint. As such we have a small box with no drives, just a compact flash card that the entire OS and application installs on. It takes very little room and in a co-loc environment you can maybe even stick it in the same space as a 1U rack server (if the server isn't too deep). They also offer a fail over capability. I am not the one that did the initial setup, but I do administer it on occasion. The small box we use (with the motherboard and alum. case) cost about $200.00 all told. You can get a small Linksys (I think) model 45wrt which allows you to make lots of modifications to and there are a number of people that have released modified firmware for that unit to provide better firewall capabilities than what was initially provided with the unit. Hope this helps. Dale Tom Duke wrote: >Hi all, > >We're looking at co-locating a server (Windows 2003 based) with our ISP. >I was just wondering what firewalls people were using to protect their >webservers - are there ones that are particularly suited to use with >webservers ? > >Thanks >- Tom > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Dale Lists

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