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 17:07:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls (FAQ alert) Message-ID: <20050617210721.GB8548@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050617200930 DOT GV3522 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> 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 11:01:28PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba wrote: >Corinna Vinschen 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. >> >>If you just have purchased it, it has probably Windows XP installed. > >It doesn't - I'll get my copy when our MSDN Academic Alliance >coordinator comes back from abroad next week. > >>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. > >Then I'll give it a try. > >Thanks for all answers. Joshua, do you think you could add an entry about this concerning what seems to work and what doesn't seem to work? Although, I thought I recalled that Norton's firewall didn't work too well. 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/