Re: Cygwin and firewalls

["Aaron Gray" <angray at beeb dot net>]

> > 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.
>
> If you just have purchased it, it has probably Windows XP installed.
> Why not just use the system firewall which is part of XP SP2?  It's
> fairly simple to use and I had no trouble using it with Cygwin, so far.
> It's at least good for a start and it doesn't cost anything extra.

Windows XP SP2 firewall is very good and should not interfere with Cygwin.

I have also been using Norton Internet Security firewall also with no 
problems with Cygwin.

Aaron



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