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RE: Firewall on cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:53:49 +0100
- Subject: RE: Firewall on cygwin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Maurício
> Sent: 17 August 2004 15:45
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone uses/knows of a firewall that runs under cygwin?
>
> Thanks,
> Maurício
Can't be done. Cygwin runs entirely in user mode; it has no ability to
run applications in kernel mode or to act as a windoze device/filter driver.
Having said that, you might be able to half bodge together a leaky and
semifunctional one using the ip receive hooks, but it'd be shot through with
holes.
In short: use a windoze firewall.
cheers,
DaveK
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