ipfwpane A Preference Pane for Leopard that gives you back control over the packet based firewall from the Tiger days
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A Preference Pane for Leopard that gives you back control over the packet based firewall from the Tiger days ipfw Preference Pane (short ipfwPane) lets you control the ipfw(8) firewall again. With Leopard Apple did introduce the new application firewall. The former packet based firewall (which Mac OS X inherited from FreeBSD) does however still exist.There is just no longer an user interface available for it, as it was in 10.4. This is the problem ipfwPane solves: it provides nearly the same simple interface like the Sharing preference pane in the Tiger days did.This gives you again a more fine-grained control over which ports you want to allow and which you want to block. And other than with Leopards application firewall you can now also block built-in applications and services if you want to.NOTE: ipfwPane is licensed and provided under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license.

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