This tip applies to people using Billion routers.
When you enable the router firewall, you will find yourself unable to connect to the VASSAL server.
To fix the problem, log in to your router and follow the steps below.
Navigate to Configuration > Firewall > Packet Filter.
Add a new TCP/UDP filter.
Add a filter with the details shown here and click Apply.
Navigate to Save Config to FLASH and click Apply.
You should now be able to connect to the VASSAL server.
How to turn off the firewall in a macintosh? I want my firewall to basically ask me permission before it let’s pass through some applications i have.
On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:14 PM, danielle wrote:
How to turn off the firewall in a macintosh? I want my firewall to
basically ask me permission before it let’s pass through some
applications i have.
Exactly how the software firewall in the Mac works depends on the
particular version of Mac OS. You can sort of control it through the
System Preferences > Security > Firewall panel, which gives you
various (fairly limited) options. To keep things simple, Apple
doesn’t have a lot of very precise control.
10.5 Leopard is fairly basic, with three main options for incoming
connections:
Allow everything
Allow essential only
Allow a specific list
There doesn’t appear to be any outbound restrictions.
10.6 Snow Leopard has, IIRC, some additional options, including one
where you can get prompted for connections, but I’m not on my Show
Leopard machine, so I can’t check.