[RndTbl] Connection tracking in ipfilter (Solaris) or ipfw (Mac OS X)?

Gilbert E. Detillieux gedetil at cs.umanitoba.ca
Wed Jan 21 14:39:53 CST 2009


On 2009-01-21 13:36, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Gilbert E. Detillieux wrote:
>> I had heard of this, but I haven't tried it.  It looks like an
>> alternative to what's provided in Server Admin.  (Perhaps it would be
>> more useful under the non-Server versions of Mac OS X.)
> 
> You could try asking on Apple's macos-x-server list, but I think you may
> be out of luck.
> 
> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/macos-x-server

I didn't bother to subscribe to the list and ask, but I did search the 
online archive.  I found lots of discussion (many of it repetitive and 
sometime degenerating toward infantile) about the passive FTP problem, 
but the only practical solution with ipfw seems to be to open up a range 
of ports.

There was no discussion about the similar problem with Amanda backups, 
but I'm assuming a similar solution would be the best I could hope for.

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