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Posted by Phillip Windell on October 26, 2005, 12:26 pm
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> I am looking at putting several servers in a rack in a datacenter. I
> obviously want some sort of firewall solution, and I am wondering what
> opinions some of you might have about the topic. I will need to serve out
> Exchange services through the firewall, so I would either have to publish
> the Exchange server in ISA or open up access to it in some sort of DMZ
with
> a hardware firewall. What experiences/suggestions do you have about one
> versus the other?
They are the same thing, they just look physically different. Hardware
firewalls run on software (some even use Harddrives) and software firewalls
run on hardware. If you really want to see something interesting, go to:
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/partners/hardwarepartners.asp
There are 8 companies that produce "hardware firewalls" that run on
Server2003/ISA2004.
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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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Understanding the ISA 2004 Access Rule Processing
http://www.isaserver.org/articles/ISA2004_AccessRules.html
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server: Guidance
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/techinfo/Guidance/2004.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/techinfo/Guidance/2000.asp
Microsoft Internet Security & Acceleration Server: Partners
http://www.microsoft.com/isaserver/partners/default.asp
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