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Turning Off/Disable Apple Firewall and Using WaterRoof?

merc669

merc669

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Since Apple stopped using "ipfw" as in the "Tiger" and developed their own homebrew Firewall. If I want the Firewall Service to be completely Disabled and use a third-part Firewall like "WaterRoof" (http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ ) for example or find a GUI that I can use with "ipfw" (Still in Leopard but not used). Is that possible and if so, How? Thanks!

Bill......:apple:
 
I am very interested in this too! However, I have yet had the time to really look into configuring ipfw manually. It's similar to iptables in Linux, really good but a pain to configure...

See if this link helps:
http://securosis.com/index.php?s=ipfw
A blogpost on configuring ipfw. Please note I haven't vetted their code yet, so don't use their code blindly if you don't know what you're doing. 🙂


merc669 said:
Since Apple stopped using "ipfw" as in the "Tiger" and developed their own homebrew Firewall. If I want the Firewall Service to be completely Disabled and use a third-part Firewall like "WaterRoof" (http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ ) for example or find a GUI that I can use with "ipfw" (Still in Leopard but not used). Is that possible and if so, How? Thanks!

Bill......:apple:
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