RE: Is iptables available for Mac OS 10.X

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Thanks for the information, Ed.

-----Original Message-----
From: netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:netfilter-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Edward Moon
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:57 PM
To: Aldo S. Lagana
Cc: alex_chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Is iptables available for Mac OS 10.X


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
>
>
>



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