Re: Firewall on Mac OS X

[Norman Franke <franke1 () llnl gov>]

Mac OS X comes with a firewall. Go to System Preferences, the Sharing 
panel, click on Firewall. You can also use Brickhouse to let you 
customize it a little more (http://www.securemac.com/brickhouse.php) 
I believe the built-in one is based on ipfw.

-Norman Franke
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

At 5:20 PM -0700 4/11/03, James Z may have written:
> I'm looking for recommendations for a firewall to use on a Macintosh running
> OS X. I'm running a demo of Netbarrier X and have a router in front of the
> Mac. Nothing ever comes through the router so I have no idea if the firewall
> offers any extra protection.
>
> I also have a Sunblade 100 and need to install a firewall on it and thought
> sun's free firewall would be good.
>
> James Zuchelli
> SQA Engineer
>
>
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