How to turn off Leopard firewall?

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Lateralus

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jan 24, 2008

• #1

Hello, I think the firewall that is built-in to Leopard is causing me to be unable to connect to World of Warcraft (dorky, I know).

Is there a way to disable this firewall?

 

Mydel

macrumors 6502a

• Jan 24, 2008

• #2

Lateralus said:

Hello, I think the firewall that is built-in to Leopard is causing me to be unable to connect to World of Warcraft (dorky, I know).

Is there a way to disable this firewall?

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System Preferences>Security>Firewall>allow all incoming traffic

 

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Lateralus

macrumors newbie

Original poster

• Jan 24, 2008

• #3

Mydel said:

System Preferences>Security>Firewall>allow all incoming traffic

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That disables the firewall?

I don't want the Leopard firewall to run at all.. I think there is a problem with one of my outgoing connections, and I wanted to disable the Leopard firewall to see if it is causing the issue.

 

pianoplayer1

macrumors 6502

• Jan 24, 2008

• #4

Lateralus said:

That disables the firewall?

I don't want the Leopard firewall to run at all..

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Basically its not running by letting everything through. I had trouble hosting Halo games until I turned the Leopard firewall off.

EDIT: woh u just edited ur post lol

 

GimmeSlack12

macrumors 603

• Jan 24, 2008

• #5

Mydel said:

System Preferences>Security>Firewall>allow all incoming traffic

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It's pretty self-explanatory answer isn't it? Yes, Mydel is correct.
EDIT: Do you use a router? Cause those usually have firewalls as well.

 

SrWebDeveloper

macrumors 68000

• Jan 24, 2008

• #6

Alternative is allow inbound/outbound TCP and UDP via port 3724 which should do the trick (on any/all devices)

I see no reason to expose your computer simply because you're a gamer.

-jim

 

ChrisBrightwell

macrumors 68020

• Jan 24, 2008

• #7

GimmeSlack12 said:

EDIT: Do you use a router? Cause those usually have firewalls as well.

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Correction: Routers usually have NAT and packet inspection, which make the router difficult to traverse. Most routers do NOT have a built-in firewall.

 

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NoXiD

macrumors newbie

• Jan 29, 2008

• #8

System Preferences>Security>Firewall>allow all incoming traffic

I did this, however my world of warcraft downloader says that I am still behind firewall. Can anyone help me with this?

 

Nermal

Moderator

Staff member

• Jan 29, 2008

• #9

You probably need to open the required ports (TCP 3724/6112/6881-6999, if I recall correctly) on your router.

 

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cudafish

macrumors member

• Jan 30, 2009

• #10

Can I allow just a specific IP address from a PC to access my Mac ?

Thanks

 

Consultant

macrumors G5

• Jan 30, 2009

• #11

ChrisBrightwell said:

Correction: Routers usually have NAT and packet inspection, which make the router difficult to traverse. Most routers do NOT have a built-in firewall.

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They usually acts like a firewall, because external connections are NOT passed through by default, unless port forwarding is set up.

 

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Ian132456

macrumors newbie

• Dec 22, 2009

• #12

The same thing happened to me! Plus it sucks alot!

 

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AxelMonkey

macrumors regular

• Mar 9, 2010

• #13

im having this same firewall with frostwire, i went and disabled it and its still showing im behind a firewall... what to do?