Recommend Basic Firewall for Game Server?

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Hi,

I'm looking for a simple software firewall to protect a dedicated game
server from specific abusive IP addresses. The basic idea is to be able to
quickly create rules to block specific IP addresses of people who
habitually brake the game rules.

The server is already behind a hardware router/nat (which doesn't support
this particular function), so security overall isn't a major concern.
We're just looking for something that is straightforward, quick to use for
this purpose, doesn't take up a many resources, and doesn't have a lot of
unnecessary functions.

Can anyone recommend something along these lines to me?

Thanks,

Archived from groups: comp.security.firewalls (More info?)

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 06:33:44 GMT, DC spoketh

>Hi,
>
>I'm looking for a simple software firewall to protect a dedicated game
>server from specific abusive IP addresses. The basic idea is to be able to
>quickly create rules to block specific IP addresses of people who
>habitually brake the game rules.
>
>The server is already behind a hardware router/nat (which doesn't support
>this particular function), so security overall isn't a major concern.
>We're just looking for something that is straightforward, quick to use for
>this purpose, doesn't take up a many resources, and doesn't have a lot of
>unnecessary functions.
>
>Can anyone recommend something along these lines to me?
>
>Thanks,

Tiny personal firewall should do this for you without taking up much
resources on your game server.

Lars M. Hansen
www.hansenonline.net
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