IPTables for windows

Is there an IPTables for the windows environment ?
Would be nice to be able to build my own firewall...

Re: IPTables for windows

Osiris wrote:
> Is there an IPTables for the windows environment ?
> Would be nice to be able to build my own firewall...

Why is it the words 'sow's' and 'ears' spring to mind?

Jim Ford

Re: IPTables for windows

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:09:33 GMT, Jim Ford
wrote:

>Osiris wrote:
>> Is there an IPTables for the windows environment ?
>> Would be nice to be able to build my own firewall...
>
>Why is it the words 'sow's' and 'ears' spring to mind?
>
>Jim Ford

tell me.
English is my second language.

There are so many stories about what firewall A does and B does not,
about the merit of FW A above B, etc,
the teminology of about every commercial FW is proprietary:
"blocked", "stealth", you name it.
A lot of it is mumbo..
It's a jungle, in short.

McAfee is bloated these days (20 or 30 Mb I see in taskmanager !)
Zonealarm gives troubles with some programs
etc etc.etc.
A lot of the functionality hidden behind icons and pretty pictures and
terminology.
I can handle IPtables in Linux, but dont want to have an extra machine
powered on 24/7/52.

Something lean and mean in Windows woould be nice, with a minimum of
trust aspects and a maximum of knowing-whats-going-on.

Re: IPTables for windows

Osiris wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:09:33 GMT, Jim Ford
> wrote:
>
>> Osiris wrote:
>>> Is there an IPTables for the windows environment ?
>>> Would be nice to be able to build my own firewall...
>> Why is it the words 'sow's' and 'ears' spring to mind?
>>
>> Jim Ford
>
> tell me.
> English is my second language.

Sorry - we have a saying that 'You can't make a silk purse out of a
sow's ear'!

I would never have guessed that English is your second language.

Jim Ford