Cygwin and firewalls

[Christopher Faylor]

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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