Leopard firewall

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Mailman42 Author

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Leopard firewall

What does Leopard use for a firewall?

Would fwbuilder(sp) be a good place to start enhancing the built in firewall?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.2), 4 gig ram/200 gig hard drive

Posted on Feb 27, 2008 8:07 PM

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Answer 1

red_menace

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Feb 27, 2008 9:07 PM in response to Mailman42

ipfw is still there, as well as a new application firewall. It looks like Firewall Builder is a GUI front end that can be used for ipfw - I don't know how much enhancing it does.

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Feb 28, 2008 2:07 AM in response to red_menace

WaterRoof2 is a free GUI for ipfw that also allows traffic shaping and will do a nice log analysis for you. I tried it but did not like the fact that you cannot include comments in the rule sets, nor will it translate ports (so 80 is shown as 80 not http) If you want to use ipfw (I continue to use it rather than the new application fw - how security-conscious is the default "allow everything"?) and don't want to set rules with a text editor it is worth a look.

AK

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Mailman42 Author

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Feb 28, 2008 7:31 AM in response to Mailman42

Thank you. I will look at Waterroof2 for my needs.

There are times when the default firewall gets in the way, and I was/am looking for a "finer" control over the firewall.

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