"Windows 2000 as well as Windows XP Professional both allow the end user to construct a IPSec Firewall without having to rely on canned or 'for purchase' third-party solutions. I myself am amazed when paging through industry journals that spend most of their time painting most Firewall systems as half-baked because those systems only prevent ingress packets and not egress packets. I must admit that after witnessing Windows XP's sorry excuse for Firewalling (this indeed is half-baked), I was heartened to see that Microsoft left the IPSec functionality alone while upgrading Windows. The only sin Microsoft is guilty of in this regard is burying the IPSec system so very deep in the system, where in Windows 2000 it's nearly at the surface. Windows 9x is completely helpless in this regard and Linux uses a different system altogether so this is primarily going to just concentrate on Windows 2000."
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