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Does anyone know of a FOSS Firewall for Windows
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What's wrong with the built in windows firewall? It works well, has a GUI to add rules, etc.. You don't even need to touch it on a default setup for most people.
Because it's awful to use, counter-intuitive, and fucking breaks network connectivity all the time by switching private networks to public on a whim.
Fuck that piece of shit for that reason alone. I've seen it fuck domain controllers doing this, when "supposedly" it can't do this on a DC. Know what happens then? I can't RDP to the server from it's own local network.
This is such a problem we run a powershell script on a schedule to ensure the connections remain private.
TinyWall doesn't change the firewall, it's just an alternative GUI... like setting it from PowerShell.
I haven't had that happen unless my gateway or DHCP server changes, but on a server wouldn't adding the rules to both public and private profiles solve that too?
Could you share that script? Sounds like a nifty grassroots tech solution.
But he's not using it in a domain environment.
This. There really is no point in installing something like tinywall, when there is a built in firewall that has more functionality (granted its much less user friendly).
TinyWall is a simplified GUI for the Windows firewall... some may like it, some may not.