Timeline for Is ipfw available in Mountain Lion?
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Oct 29, 2013 at 16:01 | comment | added | athena |
→ Harald: Cksum is right. On a newly installed mountain Lion, /usr/bin/sudo ipfw list will show you that the command ipfw exists and that its filtering mechanism is active within the kernel as a fully open backend. I got the same output as the one shown by Cksum.
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Nov 11, 2012 at 13:38 | comment | added | Harald Hanche-Olsen |
I tried turning on the application firewall. The output of ipfw list didn't change, though. This appears to contradict your assertion that ipfw is the backend for the application firewall. How come?
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Jul 28, 2012 at 20:57 | comment | added | user10355 | @lupincho Yes, I understand. Even if Apple moves to pf, they can still continue bundling ipfw in OS X (perhaps simply opting not to update the program at every iteration). In any case, ipfw has survived the chopping block for at least another major iteration :) | |
Jul 28, 2012 at 20:55 | history | edited | user10355 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jul 28, 2012 at 20:52 | vote | accept | lupincho | ||
Jul 28, 2012 at 20:52 | comment | added | lupincho | Thanks. I didn't upgrade to Mountain Lion yet, that's why I am asking if it is still there. As for ipfw and the application firewall, they may decide to use pf as backend at some point; from what I understand pf is newer, more flexible etc. and that's why they put it there. | |
Jul 28, 2012 at 20:44 | history | answered | user10355 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |