Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A81B451.75EB62D1@nmsu.edu> Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 13:47:13 -0700 From: Michael Kelley X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: firewall ports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Another "free" alternative is Sygate's product http://sygate.com/ It's not as easy as zonealarm and takes an understanding of your ports to configure. But anyone who can handle cygwin can handle sygate's product. I have noticed a slowing of the system if needed ports aren't open for browser ads and such but over all I have no real complaints (yet) Andrew Markebo wrote: > / "Anon1 Anon2" wrote: > | Are there any plans to port any unix firewall software, like an > | ipchains or ipfwadm, to cygwin? It would be nice to have a free, low > | maintenance port filter (I hate zonealarm) > > ipchains and ipfwadm relies on functionality in the linux kernel, so I > don't think it is that easy to do.. > > If you don't like zonealarm, well get linux going on your machine or > find another firewall/gateway software for Windows. There are a > couple, fortunetaly I haven't needed to worry, running linux :-9 > > /Andy > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Michael Kelley mkelley@nmsu.edu Programmer/Systems Analyst I New Mexico State University -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple