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/
