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I have a server running SQL Server. I want the database to be
accessable to some other computers over the internet. Simply opening
the SQL port would be very insecure. Also, I don't think that using a
VPN would be very practical for what I'm looking to do.
I'm thinking that the best solution would be to use a firewall that
can block computers based on their IP or MAC address. So it would
have a list of IPs or MAC addresses that would be allowed to get
through to the SQL port and all other computers would be blocked and
could not access SQL server.
Is it possible to do this using the windows firewall? If not, what's
the best software or hardware solution to do this? Are there any
routers that can do this? It is very important that if this is a
software solution it must be very stable, it can't ever crash the
server.
Any suggestions?
I have a server running SQL Server. I want the database to be
accessable to some other computers over the internet. Simply opening
the SQL port would be very insecure. Also, I don't think that using a
VPN would be very practical for what I'm looking to do.
I'm thinking that the best solution would be to use a firewall that
can block computers based on their IP or MAC address. So it would
have a list of IPs or MAC addresses that would be allowed to get
through to the SQL port and all other computers would be blocked and
could not access SQL server.
Is it possible to do this using the windows firewall? If not, what's
the best software or hardware solution to do this? Are there any
routers that can do this? It is very important that if this is a
software solution it must be very stable, it can't ever crash the
server.
Any suggestions?