http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Windows-Firewall-need-on-a-server-box-23154632 en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:53:44 EDT Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:53:44 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Windows-Firewall-need-on-a-server-box-23154632
Our company has a few windows server 2003 boxes. All workstations and servers are on the same VLAN.

In the past, there was an admin installing a application filtering firewall on each server.

Now, there is a new admin trying to remove them on each server. We all disagree but he claims it's slow down the traffic on the server.

I am like, All servers will slow down traffic within 5-10% margin as it's checking packets. I don't think that with the firewall on the top of TCP/IP layer, the server can sustain in 100% bandwidth of the traffic.

He argues that there is no need to put a firewall in an argument sake. He claims even tho he enables a full allow for both inbound and outbound, it's still slowing down.

Can anybody give me some of your opinon about this situation?

Thanks.

Jackson]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Windows-Firewall-need-on-a-server-box-23154632 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:22:38 EDT