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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Firewall on cygwin
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:53:49 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Maurício
> Sent: 17 August 2004 15:45

>    Hi,
> 
>    Does anyone uses/knows of a firewall that runs under cygwin?
> 
>    Thanks,
>    Maurício


  Can't be done.  Cygwin runs entirely in user mode; it has no ability to
run applications in kernel mode or to act as a windoze device/filter driver.

  Having said that, you might be able to half bodge together a leaky and
semifunctional one using the ip receive hooks, but it'd be shot through with
holes.

  In short:  use a windoze firewall.


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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