Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:09:30 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls Message-ID: <20050617200930.GV3522@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jun 17 21:50, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: > Hi > > 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. If you just have purchased it, it has probably Windows XP installed. Why not just use the system firewall which is part of XP SP2? It's fairly simple to use and I had no trouble using it with Cygwin, so far. It's at least good for a start and it doesn't cost anything extra. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/