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  thuh freak Posts: 2,664member

  August 11, 2003 2:38PM

  first, do 'sudo ipfw list' so you can see all the ipfw commands you've given. hopefully it'll only be 2, the one you mentioned and the standard 'allow all from anywhere'. if you do 'sudo ipfw -f flush' it will clear all your rules, and just leave the allow anything from anybody. you can then re-add all the other rules you want that you noticed from the list. i'm pretty sure that rules can be added verbatim from that list's output: sudo ipfw add <1 line from the list>; sudo ipfw add <another line from the list>;
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  bauman Posts: 1,248member

  August 13, 2003 12:43AM

  Even easier if you have multiple rules already set up would be just to enter "sudo ipfw delete rulenum", where rulenum is the number given to the rule. Do a "sudo ipfw list" to see what's there and then somthing like "sudo ipfw delete 02110".
  
  
  
  The ipfw utility is so great. I've just started realizing one quarter of it's potential, and so now I've completely given up on Apple's Pref Pane. For example, I want to be able to access my music through SMB sharing on my campus network so I can listen to it in the labs, but I don't want those crazy RIAA kooks finding my computer sharing ten thousand songs, so I can enter in the subdomain of my campus network, and it will only allow oncampus computers access. And I really only SSH from two other computers, so I can allow access to only those two IPs.
  
  
  
  For quite an extensive runthrough, type man ipfw.
  
  
  
  You ought to be running it, at least as configured through the PrefPane.... it's not too hard to do, and it really doesn't interfere with stuff you want if it's set up correctly.