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May 19, 2005, 05:18 PM
 
The mac os x i am running has a built in firewall to block TPC ports. but i need to be blocking UDP ports also.

any way to do this? or a program to do it.
     
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May 19, 2005, 05:32 PM
 
I think you can do it via the Sharing pref Firewall tab where you can add new ports to block. I personally use NB which I think block all ports.

Or I could be wrong.

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May 19, 2005, 07:05 PM
 
the macs built in one far as i can tell only blocks the TPC
     
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May 19, 2005, 08:08 PM
 
Actually, the built-in firewall of OSX is quite powerful. The problem is that Apple's interface to it is very poor; you can't use it to configure most of the stuff that it allows. You might consider one of the third-party configuration utilities, such as BrickHouse, which use the built-in firewall code but do a much better job of configuring it to do what you want.
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