Remove Entourage X delay on quit (revisited)

Dec 14, '01 01:59:27AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

[Editor's note: There's another thread with a different solution to this problem that involves closing your PPP connection before quitting. I felt this one was different enough to merit separate a separate thread.]

With certain ipfw firewall configurations and dialup connections there is a long delay when quitting Entourage v.X. By blocking remote ports 49000-50000and local ports 3000-4000 this delay is gone (the ports can probably be narrowed down). This can be done by the shell command (as user root)

ipfw 10000 add deny tcp from any 49000-50000
to any 3000-4000 out xmit ppp0
NOTE: Shown on two lines; enter as one!

The rule number might have to be changed based on your firewall settings. If there is no firewall (by using "ipfw flush") the delay does not exist at all. I'm sure a program like BrickHouse that's used to configure ipfw can be used as well. --Paul pdrake@cs.utah.edu

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