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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: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:54:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and firewalls
- References: <d8v8ru$9mt$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 09:50:07PM +0200, Krzysztof Duleba 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.
This is a good question and, if anyone has a definitive answer, I think
it should go into the FAQ.
cgf
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