At 05:07 PM 6/17/2005, you wrote: >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.
Is this relative to Cygwin with or without X? I haven't seen much in the way of complaints and/or problems that were determined to be associated with "faulty" firewalls beyond those mentioned on the cygwin-xfree list. But that doesn't mean I didn't miss something. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
