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/
