alen teplitsky (4/18/2011)
over the years i've found the Windows firewall to be flaky at best in trying to created rules to let some traffic inthis is also a good way to ensure security for internal traffic as well by blocking development and others from SQL servers if they don't need to be there
I've seen the Windows firewall to be flaky on occasion. However, I make it a practice of not relying on it for production systems. If I have to do filtering at the OS level, I'm going to use an IPSEC policy instead. That way I can have more granular control and can force encryption of the network traffic if I need to.
K. Brian Kelley
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