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BollywooD

macrumors 6502
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Apr 27, 2005
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Hamburg
I cant find a way to open specific ports? - just give certain applications permission???

please help.
 

bigandy

macrumors G3
Apr 30, 2004
8,852
7
Murka
System Prefs > Security > Firewall

Click the little "+" icon near the bottom

Choose your app

Tell it what to allow/disallow

Done.
 

BollywooD

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Apr 27, 2005
369
46
Hamburg
System Prefs > Security > Firewall

Click the little "+" icon near the bottom

Choose your app

Tell it what to allow/disallow

Done.

that only gives the option to allow or disallow incoming connections....
im trying to set up azureus, and need to make sure my specific ports are open.
I like to leave the firewall in stealth mode.
 

bigandy

macrumors G3
Apr 30, 2004
8,852
7
Murka
that only gives the option to allow or disallow incoming connections....
im trying to set up azureus, and need to make sure my specific ports are open.
I like to leave the firewall in stealth mode.

click advanced > enable stealth mode.


that's as advanced as the built in one gets.

if you want more, try little snitch. ;)
 

BollywooD

macrumors 6502
Original poster
Apr 27, 2005
369
46
Hamburg
it all works until i enable stealth mode, (actually setting up ports in Transmission) then Transmission says that the port is stealth.

without stealth enabled, the port is reported as open in Transmission.

I prefer the firewall in Tiger, it was much more configurable, Leopard seems to have over simplified it to the point of not really being useful!
 

Warbrain

macrumors 603
Jun 28, 2004
5,702
293
Chicago, IL
it all works until i enable stealth mode, (actually setting up ports in Transmission) then Transmission says that the port is stealth.

without stealth enabled, the port is reported as open in Transmission.

I prefer the firewall in Tiger, it was much more configurable, Leopard seems to have over simplified it to the point of not really being useful!

I agree with you completely. I could decide what ports I wanted open before, now I've got a basic choice of what programs are allowed incoming connections. Lame. All they did was take the basic commands of Little Snitch and incorporate them into OS X while kicking the old firewall settings to the side.
 
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