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From: Christopher Parana on 28 Jan 2010 19:22
Anyone recomend a simple remote firewall management/configuration
utilty for the Mac?

Thanks!

From: Jolly Roger on 28 Jan 2010 20:16
In article <2010012819222543658-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:

> Anyone recomend a simple remote firewall management/configuration
> utilty for the Mac?

You mean besides the usual command-line utilities like ipfw an so on?

I would think most Mac users use the firewall built into their hardware
routers, which typically has remote management features built-in. Even
the Apple Airport Extreme routers have such a feature, and better yet,
rather than being web-based like most, it uses the graphical interface
in Airport Utility. If you have such a router, I suggest using that
instead.

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From: Christopher Parana on 29 Jan 2010 00:00
No, I'm looking for an enterprise solution. We're talking hundreds of
machines on our domain that we need to remotely manage.

On 2010-01-28 20:16:45 -0500, Jolly Roger said:

> In article <2010012819222543658-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
> Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:
>
>> Anyone recomend a simple remote firewall management/configuration
>> utilty for the Mac?
>
> You mean besides the usual command-line utilities like ipfw an so on?
>
> I would think most Mac users use the firewall built into their hardware
> routers, which typically has remote management features built-in. Even
> the Apple Airport Extreme routers have such a feature, and better yet,
> rather than being web-based like most, it uses the graphical interface
> in Airport Utility. If you have such a router, I suggest using that
> instead.


From: Jolly Roger on 29 Jan 2010 01:29
In article <2010012900004717709-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:

> On 2010-01-28 20:16:45 -0500, Jolly Roger said:
>
> > In article <2010012819222543658-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
> > Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone recomend a simple remote firewall management/configuration
> >> utilty for the Mac?
> >
> > You mean besides the usual command-line utilities like ipfw an so on?
> >
> > I would think most Mac users use the firewall built into their hardware
> > routers, which typically has remote management features built-in. Even
> > the Apple Airport Extreme routers have such a feature, and better yet,
> > rather than being web-based like most, it uses the graphical interface
> > in Airport Utility. If you have such a router, I suggest using that
> > instead.

Ah - ok. Have you taken a look at Apple Remote Desktop to see if it
handles this?:

<http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/>

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From: Christopher Parana on 29 Jan 2010 09:52
On 2010-01-29 01:29:43 -0500, Jolly Roger said:

> In article <2010012900004717709-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
> Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 2010-01-28 20:16:45 -0500, Jolly Roger said:
>>
>>> In article <2010012819222543658-paranacj(a)buffalostateedu>,
>>> Christopher Parana <paranacj(a)buffalostate.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone recomend a simple remote firewall management/configuration
>>>> utilty for the Mac?
>>>
>>> You mean besides the usual command-line utilities like ipfw an so on?
>>>
>>> I would think most Mac users use the firewall built into their hardware
>>> routers, which typically has remote management features built-in. Even
>>> the Apple Airport Extreme routers have such a feature, and better yet,
>>> rather than being web-based like most, it uses the graphical interface
>>> in Airport Utility. If you have such a router, I suggest using that
>>> instead.
>
> Ah - ok. Have you taken a look at Apple Remote Desktop to see if it
> handles this?:
>
> <http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/>

We do use this and it's great, however it doens't work well for what we
need. For example, we can make a general set of firewall rules, and
distribute that plist to all the Macs in the enterprise. Now if a
specific machine needs a custom set of rules in addition to the
general, it's custom settings get wiped out by the mass distributed
plist. There's no way to merge.

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