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A fix for an advanced firewall settings issue on Server
This hint is a non-sequitur. OS X Client uses ipfw, and I'm pretty sure that OS X Server does as well.
ipfilter is another firewall entirely, but is more common on Linux than ipfw. I'd guess that the poster came from a Linux background, set up ipfilter rules, unaware that ipfw was already handling firewall duties. Thus the duplication of rulesets. As for people that use OS X Server regularly, try: www.afp548.com
A fix for an advanced firewall settings issue on Server
Actually, the poster is correct - Mac OS X Server uses IPFW2, but stores the rulesets in PLISTs located in /etc/ipfilter.
The ipfilter package you mention is not specific to Linux, but available for most UNIX systems, including Mac OS X. The fellow who wrote it, Darren Reed, now works for Sun, who includes ipfilter with Solaris 10 - http://blogs.sun.com/avalon/.
A fix for an advanced firewall settings issue on Server
Absolutely correct, even in OS X 10.5.6 Server, the ipfw and ip6fw configuration files are stored in /etc/ipfilter. |
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