FYI, You don't need to even 'get' ipfw on Mac OS X. It's there by default (at /sbin/ipfw). When you enable the firewall under System Preferences -> Sharing -> Firewall, you are using a dumbed down GUI to ipfw. If you check freshmeat.net or www.versiontracker.com, you'll find a number of GUI frontends available for ipfw on Mac OS X. On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Aldo S. Lagana wrote: > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 15:48:22 -0400 > From: Aldo S. Lagana <alagana@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: alex_chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Is iptables available for Mac OS 10.X > > I would think it may be easier to get ipfw (the BSD firewall equivalent to > iptables) since as you say the Mac OSX is a BSD derivative > > > -----Original Message----- > From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alex Chen > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:41 PM > To: netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Is there a port of iptables done on Mac OS 10.X anywhere? > If not, is it easy to do the port ourselves? > > If I understand correctly, there are two parts of iptables, > kernel space and user space and what we use in the RPM is > only user space. It need the kernel space change compiled > into the kernel, e.g. Linux. If so, does anyone know if > the Mac OS kernel, based on BSD I believe, supports the user > space part of the iptables? > > Any help is appreciated. > > Alex Chen > > >
