Re: [ros-general] Re: TDI-Based Open Source Personal Firewall

[Ged Murphy]

David Hinz wrote:
>   Ralph Shumaker schrieb:
> >   Will ZoneAlarm work on ROS?  I know that it stays
> > silent, ignoring 
> >  "unwanted packs".  I don't think it's open source, but it works well 
> >  on windows.
> >  
>  Since the goal of ROS is to be binary compatible with Windows NT, I 
>  would say yes, but I also think ZoneAlarm is a horrible Firewall, 
>  there are many better Firewalls available.
>  The best solution would be to create a new Firewall for ROS or change 
>  an existing one the way we want it, to include it in ROS.
>  
Considering there is no decent open source firewall available for 
windows, and the fact that including one is a _must_, this is exactly 
what we will be doing.

Ged