Re: Windows XP SP2 and Firewall

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

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