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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 22:09:30 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls
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On Jun 17 21:50, Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 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.

If you just have purchased it, it has probably Windows XP installed.
Why not just use the system firewall which is part of XP SP2?  It's
fairly simple to use and I had no trouble using it with Cygwin, so far.
It's at least good for a start and it doesn't cost anything extra.


Corinna

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