Re: Re[2]: The firewall in Tiger

[Travis Siegel]

I've not used the firewall in tiger for actual firewalling yet,  
though I did use it to allow my pc to share my wireless connection.   
The pc was plugged into the ethernet port of the mac mini, and then  
the mini was hooked up to the wireless router via wireless  
connection.  With local dns, dhcp, and gateway settings in the  
firewall configuration, I was able to provide a connection to the  
internet from a pc that did not have a wireless card.
The server setup that came with tiger greatly simplified this setup,  
as this would have been a nightmare using manual configuration.  I  
haven't used the firewall since giving my ppc mini to my son, since  
the intel machines do not have a server version of tiger yet, so I  
could not duplicate my work in the intel arena. <sigh>
I really miss my server.
But, to answer your question, You can configure the firewall to allow  
connections originating from the local machine, so that local apps  
will be able to get out, but outside apps can't get in.  However, how  
this is done on the non-server version of tiger, I have no idea.  In  
the server, you could view and modify the ip rules if you so desired,  
I've not looked at the non-server version of tiger to see where/if  
this is done.
However, if all else fails, you can always use terminal as root to  
configure the firewall rules.