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10.5: Use a custom firewall in 10.5 with ipfw
Authored by: chiggsy on Mon, Feb 11 2008 at 9:18AM PST

you dont need the custom firewall. You can be less secure if you want, up to you. OS X is unix, you'll have to accept that though. Terminal commands are handy. Some things can only be so simple though, and packet filtering is one of them.