install iptables under cygwin

[ccc]

hi

could I get iptables running under cygwin on the windows machine
and build my own firewall to secure windows instead of the desktop firewall ?

greetings
ccc

[bwkaz]

Nope.

Cygwin is only a POSIX environment for Windows, not a Linux environment. iptables, however, is not a POSIX program -- it will only talk to the Linux kernel's firewalling setup functions, not the Windows ones. (If there even are any Windows ones. I'm not so sure there are; it may be all hardcoded in the registry.)

(Cygwin gets the POSIX environment running by using a lot of Linux programs, but it's still not a full emulation, especially not of the kernel.)