Re: iptables-like firewall for windows?

[Jason Joines <joines@bus.okstate.edu>]

Mark E. Donaldson wrote:

>Take a look at Pktfilter at http://www.hsc.fr/ressources/outils/pktfilter/
>It's stateless, but very good and quite flexible nevertheless.  Also, like
>netfilter, it's free.  I've been using it for about eight months and it gets
>the job done very well indeed.
>
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>From: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org
>[mailto:netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org]On Behalf Of Jason Joines
>Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 6:27 AM
>To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org
>Subject: OT: iptables-like firewall for windows?
>
>
>  We have a completely Linux back-end environment but unfortunately
>hundreds of windows desktops.  I'm pretty tired of all the attacks on
>the unprotected windows boxes but don't have the authority to put up a
>network firewall.  We protect all of our Linux servers with iptables.
>Does anyone know of a similar tool for windows, particularly w2k?  The
>built-in stuff seems to be virtually worthless.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jason Joines
>Open Source = Open Mind
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>

  Thanks!  This is just about exactly what we were looking for.  It 
works almost exactly like ipchains.  We use a PXE application (Rembo 
Tool Kit http://www.rembo.com) for workstation management so it's ideal 
to be able to change a text file and update the rules.

Jason
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