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Firewall - simple question, complex answer?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Upstate NY (cow country)
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Here's my question. If I go to my Firewall tab to turn it on, it ways that there's another firewall running and I can't turn it on.
I have littlesnitch installed.
If I turn littlesnitch off, I still can't turn on the firewall.
I don't want to uninstall littlesnitch (if that's even the problem) as I like to know when something attempts to make a connection.
So does anyone know what it could be? I did an ipfw flush, but that didn't seem to do anything. I'm also using airport.
Thanks.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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This may happen when you have some old rules in ipfw set by another app.
To get rid of these old (and any new) rules type
sudo ipfw flush
in the terminal, type your admin password if you are prompted for it and type "y" for yes to confirm.
After this the message should be gone. Be sure to switch off any other program that may alter the ipfw settings. The firewall now needs to be configured, either by the prefpane or other means.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I had already tried the ipfw flush and it didn't do anything.
Could it be that I had previously run Carrafix? I know that it does something with ipfw. I don't use it anymore because it doesn't do anything.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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Senior User
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by memento:
I had already tried the ipfw flush and it didn't do anything.
Could it be that I had previously run Carrafix? I know that it does something with ipfw. I don't use it anymore because it doesn't do anything.
I don't know how Carrafix works and what it installes. If you suspect it affects networking you may try to delete any extensions, daemons etc. it may have put on your system.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2000
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I did a reboot and then sudo ipfw flush again and it worked. I don't know why, but whatever - it's all cleared up now. Thanks for the help.
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"Destroy your ego. Trust your brain. Destroy your beliefs. Trust your divinity." -Danny Carey
MacPro Quad 2.66, G4 MDD dual 867, 23" Cinema Display and 17" LCD, G4 Quicksilver dual 800, 12" Powerbook 867, iMac 300 Grape, B&W G3/300 with G4/450 running yellowdog, iPod 5GB, iPod mini, PowerCenter 150, Powercenter 132 tower, Performa 6116, Quadra 700, MacSE, LC II, eMate 300
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