Do I need a hardware firewall for Win 2003?

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Published on 2010-12-06T04:00:29Z Indexed on 2010/12/21 6:56 UTC
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We have had a Win 2003 server at a co-lo for a while. It is used as a web server and has a very cheap hardware firewall between it and the internet. Ports 3389 and 80 are the only ones forwarded to the server. I am doing some upgrading and wondering if I really need the firewall. Are there any drawbacks to just using the Win 2003 built in firewall to make sure only traffic on 3389 and 80 get through?

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