mac firewalls ?

Combat squirrel · 4 Mar 2008 at 11:50

As title , whats available ? i know there is the in built one and some of u may say its not needed, but im curious as to whats out there, running 10.4 tiger, thanks

mortals · 4 Mar 2008 at 12:02

I use the built in one with stealth mode on.

I also use littlesnitch 2

GraemeUK · 4 Mar 2008 at 13:20

Little snitch is brilliant for controlling outgoing access.

Combat squirrel · 4 Mar 2008 at 14:41

awes, awes, any general firewalls that are better than built in one ? to use along side little snitch ?

bigredshark · 6 Mar 2008 at 20:53

Combat squirrel said:
awes, awes, any general firewalls that are better than built in one ? to use along side little snitch ?

Well it's unix underneath so a firewall is a firewall, no difference between them at all. But unless you're giving your mac a public IP then a NAT router is protection enough.