Firewalls for X?

Hydroglow · #1 December 10th, 2003, 05:57 PM

Has anyone installed any kde or X firewalls on OS X? I really want kmyfirewall to work on my mac but I don't think it will install. Anyone have any ideas on getting a X firewall to work on my mac?

symphonix · #2 December 10th, 2003, 08:38 PM

Why do you want an X firewall?
I'd assume that kmyfirewall is just a KDE front-end for the ipfw, which Mac OS X uses. If thats the case, it should be possible to get it to work.

**Giaguara** · #3 December 10th, 2003, 10:21 PM

Wouldn't it be easier just to use the built-in firewall (in system preferences) or e.g. BrickHouse?

Hydroglow · #4 December 11th, 2003, 01:04 AM

I've had problems with brickhouse and impasse with 10.3 and I wanted a firewall that I could configure without any problem. And also a program that shows me the ipfw logs in realtime.

scruffy · #5 December 12th, 2003, 07:17 PM

The system prefs firewall rules interface is pretty dreadful.

If you look at the rules that are set (ipfw list), it doesn't even specify IP protocols - for example if you let in http requests, it allows everything to port 80, even UDP. In the interface, all you can do is state a port or range of ports to allow - no protocols, no source address or interface limits, no stateful filtering, no outgoing connection filtering - these are all features of ipfirewall, system prefs just doesn't let you get at them

You'd probably be better off just to learn the semantics of the ipfw command, and right a startup script to run at boot.

kmyfirewall could be a front end to a number of firewalls. If it's meant for Linux, then it would be for ipchains or iptables (the Linux kernel firewalls); if it's for BSD, it could be for ipfirewall (the one OS X uses) or pf (the OpenBSD kernel firewall, I think)