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Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: Davidge on Apr 09, '03 07:47:03PM

I'm not sure about everyone else, but "Rendevous iChat" was a selectable item in my Firewall config screen.

I'm running 10.2.4 but that option has been there a while.

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Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: diamondsw on Apr 09, '03 07:48:33PM

Not in mine, also running 10.2.4.



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Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Apr 09, '03 10:57:11PM

That option wasn't there for me either, also running 10.2.4. I wonder what makes you special? If I had to guess, I would say that you set it once, and then forgot. However, I think this is an important addition, if not to the default list, then at least to the pull-down menu--I mean, they have Gnutella pre-configed, but not Rendezvous iChat?

I have tried both 5289 and 5298, and have found that 5298 needs to be open to allow in-bound connections. Interestingly, without either open still allows out-bound connections--I can send messages using Rendez iChat with both 5289 and 5298 closed, but can't receive.



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Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: bmerlin on Apr 10, '03 02:54:11AM

That's the entire point of a firewall--it allows outgoing communication, but not incoming except on ports that are specifically allowed.



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re: Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: huzzam on Apr 25, '03 02:29:48AM
That's the entire point of a firewall--it allows outgoing communication, but not incoming except on ports that are specifically allowed.

There are good reasons not to allow certain outbound connections as well, and most firewalls also allow such restrictions (including apple's, though not through the gui).

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Allow Rendezvous to work through Apple's Firewall
Authored by: Jaharmi on Apr 10, '03 09:07:26AM

I also don't have this option in my firewall. Perhaps different versions of Mac OS X come with it preset in the firewall's potential rules, and those of us who started with earlier/different builds don't have it?

My Mac OS X installs came from the 10.2 retail CD, and my iBook/800's bundled 10.2.1 CD, if that helps.

Apple often shipped slightly different versions of Mac OS 8/9 with systems than came in retail packages, so I wouldn't be surprised that there could be slight differences in the Mac OS X versions you get through different channels. For example, a 10.2 retail CD set boots my iBook but doesn't allow me to view the screen at anything above 800x600 or 640x480 -- and then it wouldn't fully install after that -- but when I booted from my 10.2.1 bundled set, all was well.



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