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10.8.2 and STILL no real NAT/DHCP admin?

I keep having to roll back to 10.7 cos 10.8.* WON'T do NAT/DHCP....Dammit!

Anyone had any luck?


Dual ethernet MacPro 2009...


Bobs

Mac Pro 2.66Ghz 8-core Nehalem. 20gb/2tb/2tb/2tb/2tb, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Did have Logic Node Macs G5 Dual 2.7Ghz, Dual 1.8, now servers,

Posted on Sep 25, 2012 6:34 PM

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May 4, 2013 3:48 AM in response to jgmdean

Having waited for months, I have installed Icefloor 1.5 on my OSX Mountain Lion Server (on a Mac Mini) to manage the NAT and firewall.


However I found that Icefloor has a few problems:


1. I can only disable its firewall completely (i.e. Inbound -> select the "Allow all inbound connections (no filtering, unsafe)" ). Otherwise the OS X Server's DHCP server will not work. It will not work even I ticked all "Services" that Icefloor lists, or even I enter both TDP and UDP on port 67 plus 68 at the "Inbound Custom Services".


The DHCP Server simply does not work, until I choose the "Allow all inbound connections (no filtering, unsafe)" option.


2. I cannot set different inbound rules for WAN and LAN interface. I want my LAN can access anything (ports), while at the same time block any WAN traffic except connection established or at port 80 and FTP ports. But I found that this is not possible via the interface by Icefloor. Maybe it is possiblle to do this by editing the "anchor". But I found this very different from other firewall such as pfSense / iptables.

10.8.2 and STILL no real NAT/DHCP admin?

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