Re: ipfw on/off

• Subject: Re: ipfw on/off
• From: Ian Ward Comfort <email@hidden>
• Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:15:29 -0800
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Quoting Jaime Magiera <email@hidden>:

On Jan 24, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Ian Ward Comfort wrote:

On Jan 24, 2007, at 1:01 PM, Jaime Magiera wrote:

On Linux, I can use "ipfw enable firewall" from the terminal to start ipfw. However, that doesn't seem work on OSX. I can't find a startup item or launch plist for it. I must be going crazy. How does one stop/start ipfw on OSX client?

You probably want:

/usr/sbin/sysctl -w net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1

On OS X client, the firewall is started at boot time by /usr/ libexec/FirewallTool, which has no man page and is run directly from /etc/rc if /Library/Preferences/ com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist exists.

That my friend is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

(I wonder why everything is so entrenched on client)

Out of curiosity where does it keep the firewall rules? In that plist?

Yes.

—IWC

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