SL firewall not active out of the box?

[The ArchAngel]

I noticed after my initial install yesterday that the firewall does not appear to be on by default. Just throwing it out there so people can take action to activate the firewall.

I haven't checked to see if ipfw is doing anything out of the box, but I imagine not.

 

[C64]

Lolwut, weird. Thanks for that!

Probably the last thing I would've checked *enabled*

 

[The ArchAngel]

Lolwut, weird. Thanks for that!

Probably the last thing I would've checked *enabled*

Yeah it is strange, because if memory serves me, wasn't the Leopard 10.5 firewall on by default? Strange indeed, but fortunately it was one of the first things I checked.

 

[cuestakid]

Thats odd-I did not need to enable it.

Can anyone else chime in and say if you had to enable it or if it was enabled when SL was installed.

 

[r.j.s]

Mine was enabled ... set to block all incoming connections.

 

[Daveoc64]

The Firewall was also off by default in Leopard.

If you did an upgrade, it would probably have preserved your old setting.

 

[C64]

Ah that would explain it; I did a clean install. I also thought that it was enabled by default on Leopard, but that's a long time ago

You gotta hate Apple for this. At least in Windows I know exactly what to alter and can do everything with my eyes closed after 20275 XP-installations

 

[Morod]

Leopard's firewall was off by default. I upgraded (not a clean install) to SL and the firewall was on by default, my old setting preserved.
At least the interface for the SL firewall is far less confusing than the one for Leopard.

 

[r.j.s]

I upgraded, but my exact settings were not preserved. It was on, but I had Leopard's set to Set specific access for apps. Now it is blocking all incoming.

 

[The ArchAngel]

To clarify, I did a clean install and it was definitely off.