Looking For New Firewall To Try

Hi All,

I am looking for a new firewall to try. The main things I want are.

1. Low use of memory/resources.
2. Ease of use and creation of rules.
3. Good protection/security.

Is there anything out there (other than LNS) that I should be looking at? If not no problem, I will give LNS another shot.

Thanks,

Jag

 

Jaguar....Check out the NetVeda thread....I think NetVeda meets all your
requirements.

 

Yeah but Netveda uses too much memory for my liking.

 

Without the admin GUI according to many...only kerio 2. is lower.
average for many is 7-8megs for ipsvc.exe and 5 megs for ipctray.

 

Does Kerio 2 have application filtering?

 

Thinking of trying Netveda myself, whats this admin GUI and is it a prob to turn off ?

 

Huwge...The admin Gui ....is just the users interface..to make settings...so its not normally on

Yes kerio has app filtering....there is BZ's ruleset for it.

 

BZ's ruleset?

 

Don't laugh, but the Windows SP2 ICF meets all three requirements.

 

Heres BZs ruleset for kerio 2.**

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8023708~mode=flat

 

Thank you for the link, I will have to check it out.

 

what about look 'n' stop?

 

I did try that one awhile back. I wonder which is better, LNS or Kerio 2.1.5?

 

i tried ZA pro for a few days now, but i dont like it. LnS looks good.
If somebody knows, is good to tell us more.

 

well...
Netveda has become lighter.
kerio 2 is EXTREMELY light and fast. But doesn't have the new thingys of dll control, and I supose, NAT support?
Anywhu.. just get a packet filter style firewall like CHX-I along with kerio 2 to cover its flaws with framented packets [configuring CHX-I is weird and i didn't understand much... ask Diver 'coz he knows how to do it... I think]
LnS is good and light, but some people don't like it's flimsy packet filtering AFAICT. Go to the LnS board and have a look-see

 

The Windows Firewall does not provide good protection/security as you claim, You can refer to this pdf document for the details.

 

So what? That PDF is nothing more than advertising copy for Outpost.

 

Another vote for Kerio 2.I m running version 2.1.4 right now (it's more stable for me than the 2.1.5 and i don't use remote administration)

 

8signs fw is still a very good spi based firewall!

www.8signs.com

 

Jaguar - I would give Look N Stop another try.. It's quite good. I'm using it right now with Phantom's rule set modified for my needs, and it's only using 3 mb of ram. Very light, easy to use, and so on. Aside from that, Kerio 2 is probably the next lightest..

 

I knew you were going to say that.

 

I did too...

 

ROFLOL...

 

The original poster asked for

so we presented an answer as to why Windows FW is not sufficient for security purposes since it was mentioned. Outpost Firewall is a firewall which meets all three of the above.

 

Yes indeed it does!! thanks Q.