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10.4: How to use BrickHouse firewall GUI
Authored by: wgscott on Dec 20, '05 08:51:10AM

I have used brickhouse for 10.4. The startup items it installs seem to work fine in my hands at least. The problem I had is that one of the rules it puts in is incompatible with ipfw in 10.4. Apparently the syntax has changed. In any case, my workaround was to issue

sudo ipfw /etc/firewall.conf

and see where it fails. I found the line in /etc/firewall.conf, commented it out, and then it worked.

All the startup item does is it runs /etc/firewall.conf during startup. Two possible workarounds that don't costs $10:

1. Make a Launchd item to run /etc/firewall.conf as root at startup.
2. Stick the line

ipfw /etc/firewall.conf

in some other startup script that is run by root at startup.



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