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. Regards Krzysztof Duleba -- 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/
