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Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic
- From: Herbert Eppel <Herb at gmxpro dot net>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 06:30:30 +0100
- Subject: Re: Basic question 1 - Traffic
- References: <4338CA10.1090003@gmxpro.net> <dhaknr$n62$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On 27.09.2005 06:18 UK Time, Jack Tanner wrote:
Herbert Eppel wrote:
No doubt this is a very basic question, and I'm not sure whether it is
really a question for this group or whether I should direct it to the
authors and/or user group of the ESP-r software, but I wonder whether
someone could shed some light on why Cygwin/X (or perhaps it is just
the individual components of the ESP-r software I am running?)
triggers ZoneAlarm access permission alerts and generates constant
internet traffic (or perhaps only 'trusted zone' traffic?) as
indicated by ZoneAlarm?
Chances are that you're seeing Cygwin/X connect to itself via TCP. This
is normal.
Hi Jack,
thanks for your reply. I don't really understand why Cygwin/X needs to
connect to itself, but it seems a likely explanation for the traffic I
am seeing.
Furthermore, Zone Alarm is a source of problems for many Cygwin/X users.
The two are known to conflict. See
http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html.
I don't actually have a problem with ZoneAlarm, I was just curious about
why the various components of the ESP-r software I am using (and indeed
some external ones that came bundled with that software, for example
xv.exe) triggered a one-off ZoneAlarm access permission alert when they
were launched for the first time (they are now listed in ZoneAlarm's
list of programs). Can you offer further enlightenment here, or would
the ESP-r user list a more appropriate forum for this question?
Thank you.
Herbert Eppel
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