OK.
So somewhere in the rules, there appears to still be
a reason that you set to block 514 (deny).
Well, you led me to take a look at ordering of the filter lines. I'd D/L'd "Flying Buttress" FW as indirectly mentioned within a previous posters reply, upthread
http://order.kagi.com/?5MG
This showed me the 'Deny' on several items and I could see 514 got blocked near the top of the listed filters... I read that the first match and the rule-search stopped ... so that ansered my query ...
And we don't really know why you'd run Stealth.....
Indeed. And I had to laugh at that reply ... shame on me ... but I believe it started when I tried Shields Up (GRC) and got all Stealth except replying to their Ping. Couldn't understand it since I hadn't seen log entries in the DSL Modem's log nor attempts inbound to me in the ipfw.log.
So I set myself to Stealth to see if that was the problem.
New to the Mac ... a convert recently from the ugliness of the Windows system ... not an excuse, just an explanation of why I am swimming around trying to get some way on.