Windows XP SP2 and Firewall
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Tue Mar 2 15:26:00 GMT 2004
Stuart Adamson wrote:
>>I'll do some research on how to change the firewall settings from
>>a running program.
>>
>>Any comments and ideas?
>
>
> What happens when X crashes? We *have* to restore the firewall in this
> case. I *think* we can catch this case using SEH - but we can't compile
> using gcc then...
That was not my impression from reading information about XP SP2.
However, I don't think we are going to have to modify anything anyway,
since the default for the new firewall in SP2 is to allowing incoming
connections for a few seconds from the remote host after an outbound
connection has been made to it. This should work just fine with our
outbound UDP connection that expects to get a return TCP connection for
Xdmcp.
Harold
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