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Re: firewall ports


/ "Anon1 Anon2" <anonuc777@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Are there any plans to port any unix firewall software, like an
| ipchains or ipfwadm, to cygwin? It would be nice to have a free, low
| maintenance port filter (I hate zonealarm)

ipchains and ipfwadm relies on functionality in the linux kernel, so I
don't think it is that easy to do.. 

If you don't like zonealarm, well get linux going on your machine or
find another firewall/gateway software for Windows. There are a
couple, fortunetaly I haven't needed to worry, running linux :-9

        /Andy

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