Can anyone tell me what happens if I block all UDP ports from
Public interface to Private interface, destined for my Intranet server. What
is the disadvantage or better way of doing and prventing the following
messages.

I am using an IPv6 to v4 tunnel on my XP SP2 system with the XP
firewall enabled. I have problems using ping6 or tracert6 when the
firewall is enabled. Is there a way to allow protocol 41 without
disabling thw whole XP firewall ?

Dear Group,
I have two servers
Webserver and fileserver (windows 2003)
there is a firewall in between two servers.

I have been configuring Windows Firewall for my users on a Domain GPO. My
question is about about the syntax of <Scope> in the Define Programs
Exception List.
The syntax for <Scope> includes the options of    localsubnet  or   "*"

Can anyone provide a URL where there is a discussion of this
 topic that is somewhat formal, as opposed to a
kitchen-sink argument about which firewall is best?
--David

I have 2 NICs installed and I woudl like to have Windows Firewall to be ON
on 1st NIC,
and make it OFF on 2nd one.
How to do this???

I am sure someone out there has an answer for this:
I use ZoneAlarm Pro (ZAP) along with Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition & SQL
Server Developer Edition. There are a lot of times where I would like to go
to my browser (IE) and put in something starting with http://localhost.

  I'm having a firewall issue with Windows Firewall on my 2003 servers.
Both servers are DCs but one is using the Standard Profile from my policy
("Windows Firewall is using your non-domain settings") while the other is
using the Domain Profile from the same policy ("Windows ...

Below is pasted an interesting article. Comments?
"Personal Firewalls" are mostly snake-oil
A 'personal firewall' isn't a firewall. A firewall is a dedicated box
with (usually) two or three ethernet ports running no services other

I'm helping a friend setup his home network via his Linksys ADSL router.
I'm not familiar with the options of the built in Windows XP firewall as
I've always used 3rd party software. With those I just have to enter the IP
address of the PC wanting to join the network into the ...

Hi;
We are going to put our web server at a col-lo facility so it will be
outside our firewall.
Is there a way using the windows firewall to give as good a protection

Hey, im on xp pro, and my firewall settings have just gone wierd. everything
is greyed out and it says "For your security, some settings are controlled by
group policy" im just on a home lan so i dont know where these came from....  
in exceptions, it has also go a group policy ...