On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Steve Gehlbach wrote:Maybe it is routing, I don't know, but one other thing that you might check that affects networks is kernel firewalling. I think on BSD it is "ipfw" and "ipfw show" will list any firewall settings. Something like that, anyway. I don't know what Apple is putting in by default these days, but many Linux systems, such as Lindows, are putting up some pretty restrictive firewalls (iptables in Linux).
I read recently that default OS X installs have firewall turned off, but the network ports are sewn up tight and practically no open ports.
Which means that the firewall doesn't have to be on at the start. (In a simplistic sense.) Reportedly, OS X has fewer ports open by default than Windows. (Not trying to stir anyone up, just reporting what a colleague has recently read. In too much of a rush to get home to stop and read/write details! :-)
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