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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
