Mac Firewall 88 Responses

Last post: 5 years, 8 months ago | Thread started: Sep 14, 07, 12:18 p.m.

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• menos

  Hello friday afternoon,

  any of you got suggestions of a firewall app for os x...
  ive been using netbarrier for a couple of years now and dont seem to have any problems with it (that i can tell of, anyway) but was wondering if there are any good alternatives that might have been tried and tested.

  thanks in advance

  and here goes something to end the day

  Sep 14, 07, 12:18 p.m. – Permalink

• k0na_an0k

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  dude... those kids RULE!

  sorry. i can't help you with your firewall question.

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 12:28 p.m. – Permalink

• menos

  hehehe...no worries!

  but yeah, they're insane!

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 12:30 p.m. – Permalink

• jpea

  maybe it's too basic, but os x has a firewall built in.

  otherwise, you could go the command line route and setup iptables.

  other than that, not sure... sorry

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 12:36 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  here's a good tutorial on writing your own rules via the cl with the built-in firewall

  http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/…

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 12:51 p.m. – Permalink

• menos

  wow thats some pretty 'hardcore' firewall system.. for me at least...had no idea this could be done!

  its not that im really in need of one, its more curiosity about whats out there and reccomended by users...

  but thanks!

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 12:56 p.m. – Permalink

• horton

  OS X firewall works good for me.

  .. in your system prefs under Sharing.

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 1 p.m. – Permalink

• ribit

  OSXX firewall should do everything you need, and if you want to do more complex port mapping (like redirecting a public port to a private port) you would usually do it at the router rather than on a single Mac.

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 5:28 p.m. – Permalink

• epigraph

  try flying buttress it is a gui that tweaks the built in firewall. Little hard to use( setting up rules was not intuitive for me) at first, but it's free and steps things up a notch

  http://personalpages.tds.net/~br…

  

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  Dog-earSep 14, 07, 6:12 p.m. – Permalink