Windows Firewall Exceptions

[rebelldtu]

Hi
I am running Server 2008 with Wingate 6.6 and am using the Windows Advanced Firewall. I want to allow Wingate through obviously maintaining the best level of security. Should I be unblocking Wingate.exe or particular ports that Wingate uses?
Cheers
Paul

[Alen]

You should not use 2 Firewalls on one PC.

If however you want to use Wingate just as a proxy server, and not firewall then there is no need to make exclusions, as W2k3 firewall is statefull firewall and allows all outgoing packets and only incoming packets which are answers to the requests made by the server.

[rebelldtu]

Hi
I have the Wingate Firewall disabled and am using the Server Firewall only... also it is 2008 and not W2K3, whether it is stateful or not applications and ports still have to have rules assigned to them and 2008 Advanced Firewall blocks incoming and outgoing traffic...
Cheers

[Alen]

Hi I have the Wingate Firewall disabled and am using the Server Firewall only... also it is 2008 and not W2K3, whether it is stateful or not applications and ports still have to have rules assigned to them and 2008 Advanced Firewall blocks incoming and outgoing traffic...
Cheers

Ok, it is W2k8. Don't know about its firewall, but: I think you should uncheck it on the LAN interface, then for WAN interface allow outgoing traffic for ports according to the services you are using: TCP 80 for HTTP, TCP 25 for SMTP, TCP 110 for POP3, etc.
For ports - Wingate has nothing to do in here, everything depends on the used services. But if you want and can just allow desired application to transfer data via any ports, then just allow the whole Wingate traffic.
IMHO.

[rebelldtu]

Thanks for your response... appreciated.