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From:	Andrew Schulman <andrex AT alumni DOT utexas DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Cygwin and firewalls
Date:	Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:03:32 -0400
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> I am wondering if there is a firewall that coexists with Cygwin well.
> IIRC, there were complaints about Norton software and about some other
> firewalls too. What would you recommend me?
> 
> I ask because I've never had to use firewall before (my home box is behind
> NAT in a secure network) and I have no experience with Windows firewalls.
> I've just bought a laptop and a firewall seems to be necessary in this
> case.

Why is this a Cygwin question?  A firewall is a firewall.  Network
applications, both Cygwin and non-Cygwin, have to deal with it.  I don't
know what a Cygwin-hostile firewall would look like.




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