Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:54:02 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls Message-ID: <20050617195402.GA8548@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba 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. This is a good question and, if anyone has a definitive answer, I think it should go into the FAQ. cgf -- 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/