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From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 10:19:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403021111230.11345@odoaker.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)

Hi,

With the upcoming Servicepack 2 for Windows XP we will get more
network related bugreports. XP will then enable the built-in firewall
(ICF) by default and the xserver will become unusable from the network
without changes to ICF configuration.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/xpsp2/default.aspx

I propose a new commandline switch "-icf-adjust" which (if possible)
changes the configuration of the firewall to allow incoming traffic 
on port 6000+x and restores the old settings on exit.

I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from 
a running program.

Any comments and ideas?

bye
	ago
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             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-02 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-02 10:19 Alexander Gottwald [this message]
2004-03-02 11:03 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-02 15:21   ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-02 14:58 Stuart Adamson
2004-03-02 15:26 ` Harold L Hunt II
2004-03-02 16:33 ` Alexander Gottwald
2004-03-02 22:20   ` Elliott Wilcoxon

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