Leopard Firewall

[Don Carlile]

 From TidBITS (a pretty reliable source!):

http://db.tidbits.com/article/9251

"The Mac OS X firewall, based on the open source ipfw program, has  
been improved and now includes the capability to block network access  
to individual applications."

Also, my developer seed of Leopard shows /sbin/ipfw when queried with  
which ipfw.

Best Regards,
Don Carlile

On Oct 28, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Andrew Merenbach wrote:

> I've heard say that the Leopard firewall no longer uses "ipfw," a  
> tool (daemon?) about
> which I know next to nothing, despite my long experience with Mac  
> OS X.  Someone was
> saying that the firewall is "much less powerful" now.
>
> Is this true?  If so, why might Apple have done such a thing?
>
> Best,
> Andrew
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