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Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:19:16 +0100 (MET)
- Subject: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Hi,
With the upcoming Servicepack 2 for Windows XP we will get more
network related bugreports. XP will then enable the built-in firewall
(ICF) by default and the xserver will become unusable from the network
without changes to ICF configuration.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/xpsp2/default.aspx
I propose a new commandline switch "-icf-adjust" which (if possible)
changes the configuration of the firewall to allow incoming traffic
on port 6000+x and restores the old settings on exit.
I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from
a running program.
Any comments and ideas?
bye
ago
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