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Add firewall rules via `defaults write`
Authored by: babbage on Apr 08, '05 07:04:29AM
Or you could use a GUI that actually encompasses all of the power of the ipfw ruleset (clunky as ipfw and its syntax are, they are very powerful).

Ah, yes, good point. In that case, you'll want to take a look at BrickHouse. It may be a bit outdated at this point -- the last update seems to have been in October 2001, when it was rebuild for OSX 10.1 -- but the fundamentals really haven't changed since then and as far as I can tell it should still work just fine.

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Add firewall rules via `defaults write`
Authored by: Cameroon on Apr 08, '05 07:57:08AM

Brickhouse was one of my reasons for building my own. It has some good features, but it has some glaring omissions.

You can't build divert, tee or forward rules or "import" the existing ipfw rules to be edited via it's UI. It does provide an Expert mode, but that's just editing a text file -- why use Brickhouse if you have to use it's Expert mode?

It also feels clunky to me; the viewing area for the rules is too small and it takes a sheet and another window to get to some additional ipfw features.

Don't get me wrong, I think Brickhouse is a good tool, but I think Brickhouse is aimed at a different audience than mine. I imagine, in the end, my software will feel more comfortable to users who don't want to use the CLI or edit text files, but want the features of a GUI also powerful rule editing.

sunShield, mentioned in another comment (and one I'd never heard of before), is more my "competition" than Brickhouse.



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