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: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 07:03:32 -0400 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.9.1 X-Archive: encrypt X-IsSubscribed: yes > 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. -- 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/