It's still present on Mavericks, but the man page for ipfw reads:
This utility is DEPRECATED. Please use pfctl(8) instead.
Also, aside from the traditional port-based firewall, the firewall you
enable/disable in the security pref pane is an application-level
firewall, separate from ipfw or pf.
On 20 May 2014, at 19:48, Edward Marczak marc...@gmail.com wrote:
This is the firewall represented in
system_profiler output, so, check out the man page for (or use otool
on) afctl.
Thanks for the feedback everyone.
I've done an exhaustive search, but there's nothing called 'afctl' on my
D'oh...brain slip:
/usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw
is what you want. No man page, but there's a --help flag.
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:05 AM, 2551 2551p...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 May 2014, at 19:48, Edward Marczak marc...@gmail.com wrote:
This is the firewall represented in
On May 16, 2014, at 6:56 PM, 2551 2551p...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a Cocoa way to get get and set the status of the built-in OS X
Firewall?
It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info. Also,
I suggest asking on the darwin-userlevel list, which is a more
On May 19, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info.
Also, I suggest asking on the darwin-userlevel list, which is a more
appropriate forum for this question since it isn’t about Cocoa.
ipfw is
Out of curiosity, in which version of the OS is pf taking over for ipfw?
On May 19, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Marco S Hyman wrote:
On May 19, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
It’s ipfw under the hood; a web-search for that might turn up some info.
Also, I suggest asking on
On May 19, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Alex Zavatone z...@mac.com wrote:
Out of curiosity, in which version of the OS is pf taking over for ipfw?
The switch started in Lion. I don't know if ipfw has been completely
replaced. I seem to remember that some things were still being
done in ipfw. Or maybe
Is there a Cocoa way to get get and set the status of the built-in OS X
Firewall? At the moment I'm using an NSTask and extracting the relevant part of
the string from
system_profiler SPFirewallDataType
to get the status, but it's slow.
Is there a better way?
TIA
Phil
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