On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Craig Ringer wrote:
A NAT router makes it difficult to initiate a connection to your systems from the outside world. The extremely basic firewalls in Mac OS X and Windows XP are intended to do much the same thing.
I think it should be emphasized that the _default configuration_ in Mac OS X is basic, not ipfw itself. :) ipfw is a more than acceptable firewalling package, just not with the default config that it gets when you click the little Start button in the Firewall tab of Sharing.
PD -- Paul Day Web: http://www.bur.st/~paul/
