[SeppSchrot]

Hello,

I wasn´t sure, wether the firewall is an application or part of the OS, so I post here.

I have a tool that opens a socket port. The port number is choosen by the OS, the app. just asks for a free one.

So you dont know which port you have to open in the firewall, because its everytime a new port.
In Windows XP SP2 I can open the firewall for specific applications, not only for specific ports.

Can I say something like 'Dont block any inbound ports for application XY pls' in Tiger as well?

thx,
Sepp

[OreoCookie]

Applications still have ranges of ports, look up the range in the documentation and open all of them. Unlike Windows, the firewall doesn't work application-wise, but globally for all apps. So you can't open a range of ports just for a specific app.