Re: Windows 2000 and Packet floods

[Jermaine Howard <jhoward () kumhotech com>]

  You may want to research "winroute Pro"...it is a nice little
utility for windows and I believe it works on NT. I haven't
touched it in a while though.

Robert Hoover wrote:

> Hello, I have a friend that has Win2k Pro and a DSL connection. The
> problem he is having is that some script kiddies have decided to make
> his life a living hell :)
>
> So he asked me about firewalls for 2k and to be honest I haven't a clue
> about NT firewalls ( I am still cutting my teeth on ipmasq/ipchains on
> my system ).
>
> I am guessing that he needs something that can do packet filtering so he
> can add a rule to deny or drop anything that comes from these script
> kiddies ip.
>
> What would be the best bet for a home user that didn't want to spend
> $500 on a HW firewall / router solution.
>
> As we spend quite a bit of time on IRC we are getting attacked and
> scanned a lot and being ops we get more than a few attacks from the
> 3733t h4x0rz.
>
> I just need some suggestions,
>
>         -Thanks for your help
>
>                 -Robert