Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: fixup-cygwin@cygwin.com@fixme From: "Paul Garceau" Organization: New Dawn Productions To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 18:00:26 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: firewall ports Reply-to: Paul Garceau Message-ID: <3A818D3A.30833.D5C659@localhost> In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Hi folks, On 7 Feb 2001, at 19:07, the Illustrious Anon1 Anon2 wrote: > Are there any plans to port any unix firewall software, like an ipchains or > ipfwadm, to cygwin? Why? If you're using Windows, you should probably use a windows based firewall, even though you do have cygwin installed. In fact, it doesn't seem to matter much whether cygwin is installed or not. In most cases, especially when dealing with firewalls, it is a better choice to use the one designed for the OS, otherwise you could run into some major conflicts between cygwin and the platform that you are using. I won't even get into the security conflict considerations. > It would be nice to have a free, low maintenance port > filter (I hate zonealarm) Check out eSafe, if it's really important to you. Just remember, the firewall maintenance aspect can get much higher quite quickly depending on what you decide to do with your installation. Peace, Paul G. > > Joe > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple