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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Krzysztof Duleba" Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:01:28 +0200 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <20050617200930.GV3522@calimero.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > 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. It doesn't - I'll get my copy when our MSDN Academic Alliance coordinator comes back from abroad next week. > 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. Then I'll give it a try. Thanks for all answers. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- 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/