10.2.3 firewalls

[jimoblak]

I just updated to 10.2.3 AND jumped on to the net with a cable modem. I see that there is a firewall tab in the file sharing preferences. The OSX firewall seems fairly useful. Can anyone recommend any third party firewalls that may be of interest to a 10.2.3 user? Free (or cheap) is nice.

I use OSX with Apache/PHP/MySQL for web development so I don't need much port control beyond what is needed for those apps.

 

[rdg2cig]

O'Reilly has a good article on the Jaguar ipfw firewall and its use at:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/27/macosx_firewall.html

A good shareware gui tool to administer ipfw is the BrickHouse app at:

http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/brickhouse.html

Good Luck.