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: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:16:17 -0700 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls (FAQ alert) Message-ID: <20050621061617.GA3536@efn.org> References: <20050617200930.GV3522@calimero.vinschen.de> <20050617210721.GB8548@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-IsSubscribed: yes On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 11:06:47PM -0700, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote: > 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. Was that ZoneAlarm? -- 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/