OS X Firewall and VPC 6

[daveL]

I just confirmed that when VPC 6.1 (w/ win2k) is running (under 10.3.2), the built-in OS X firewall claims "other firewall software is already running". As soon as you quit VPC 6.1, the OS X firewall preference pane behaves normally, without the error message given above.

I've seen others mention the "other firewall" problem, so I thought this data point might be helpful.

I have no idea if other versions of OS X or VPC exhibit this problem. I have no way to test other combinations.

 

[MoparShaha]

Is VPC set to Virtual Switch or Shared Networking? Try setting it to one or the other and see if you still have the problem.

 

[daveL]

Originally posted by MoparShaha
Is VPC set to Virtual Switch or Shared Networking? Try setting it to one or the other and see if you still have the problem.

I can't use Virtual Switch in my environment, but thanks anyway.