The first article in the series discusses how to enable Internet Connection Firewall (ICF). The second article discusses how to configure and enable ports to allow services running on the device to receive unsolicited requests. If the appropriate port mappings are not configured and enabled for each service, ICF drops the unsolicited network traffic.
The articles are written for developers deploying Windows XP Embedded images to networked devices, and it assumes a proficiency in using Microsoft Windows Embedded Studio (Component Designer, Component Database Manager, and Target Designer).
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