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 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:06:47 -0700 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls (FAQ alert) In-Reply-To: <20050617210721.GB8548@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050617200930.GV3522@calimero.vinschen.de> <20050617210721.GB8548@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j5L676ld026132 On 6/17/05, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >>Why not just use the system firewall which is part of XP SP2? > Joshua, do you think you could add an entry about this concerning > what seems to work and what doesn't seem to work? Done. http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC55 > Although, I thought I recalled that Norton's firewall didn't work too > well. Me too, but it is a popular product and maybe they've improved. I also thought I remembered one that never worked for anyone but a quick search didn't turn up the name. I'll update the entry as details emerge. -- 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/