Does Windows firewall *really* need the ALG service?

[davexnet02]

Does the firewall really need the application layer gateway service?
The doc I can find is unclear. I stopped the ALG and everything
is still functioning, including the firewall.
This is in SP2.
Dave

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Does the firewall really need the application layer gateway service?

The short description in the "Services" console says: "Provides
support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection
Sharing and the Windows Firewall." This means, that the firewall
itself does not need the ALG.

 

[davexnet01]

The short description in the "Services" console says: "Provides
support for 3rd party protocol plug-ins for Internet Connection
Sharing and the Windows Firewall." This means, that the firewall
itself does not need the ALG.

Hello - the service is set to manual, yet it is started. Something
else,
I suspect the firewall, must be issuing the start for ALG.
I found this post which has a little more info:
http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

Dave

 

[Thorsten Matzner]

Hello - the service is set to manual, yet it is started. Something
else,
I suspect the firewall, must be issuing the start for ALG.

Stop the service, then restart Windows and see if the Firewall is
running. You can test this also at Gibson Research
(http://grc.com/default.htm)