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Re: Cygwin and firewalls
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 11:40:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls
- References: <d8v8ru$9mt$1@sea.gmane.org> <d90unl$rc2$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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
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