Free Third Party Firewall for Leopard?

[RZetlin]

I find that Leopard's built-in firewall is a disappointment. It lacks any GUI to configure ports.

Are there any third party firewall for Leopard?

 

[speakerwizard]

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html little snitch is quite opular, but i dont use it myself

 

[vandozza]

http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/

A GUI frontend for the ipfw used in OSX 10.5.

It sounds like this is what you are after.

Free, and really just adds a GUI to something thats already part of OSX 10.5 (so I guess there is less chance of somthing 3rd party screwing things up!?)

I can't help you set this up though... I have no idea how to use it best.

I might look around for a good tutorial!

 

[vandozza]

http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html little snitch is quite opular, but i dont use it myself

but it's not FREE! 🙂

 

[Trip.Tucker]

but it's not FREE! 🙂

LittleSnitch is also not a firewall. The built in firewall in OS X is as rock solid as any appliance you will find. As far as a gui front end goes for it, separate to what is already available in System Preferences, what has been suggested already does the job very nicely.

http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ - Water Roof. Do you get the pun? Water/Fire Roof/Wall

 

[vandozza]

LittleSnitch is also not a firewall. The built in firewall in OS X is as rock solid as any appliance you will find. As far as a gui front end goes for it, separate to what is already available in System Preferences, what has been suggested already does the job very nicely.

http://www.hanynet.com/waterroof/ - Water Roof. Do you get the pun? Water/Fire Roof/Wall

do you state that LittleSnitch is not a firewall because it only monitors outgoing connections? (and not traffic in both directions.)

whats a better description for LittleSnitch then? an "outgoing traffic monitor?"

just asking cause its described incorrectly very often if thats the case.

 

[Trip.Tucker]

do you state that LittleSnitch is not a firewall because it only monitors outgoing connections? (and not traffic in both directions.)

whats a better description for LittleSnitch then? an "outgoing traffic monitor?"

just asking cause its described incorrectly very often if thats the case.

I guess you could call it a packet filter but LittleSnitch is looking much higher up in the OSI stack, watching application calls for port initiation.

 

[vandozza]

I guess you could call it a packet filter but LittleSnitch is looking much higher up in the OSI stack, watching application calls for port initiation.

and its only outbound packets/ports right?