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: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:40:59 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls Message-ID: <20050618154059.GA23351@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 Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:03:32AM -0400, Andrew Schulman 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. > >Why is this a Cygwin question? A firewall is a firewall. Network >applications, both Cygwin and non-Cygwin, have to deal with it. I >don't know what a Cygwin-hostile firewall would look like. Some firewalls don't work well with Cygwin. This has been reported here many times and has been mentioned in the cygwin-xfree mailing list on almost a daily basis. 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/