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Ports on a Mac (Firewall)

These are the Pictures for the Mac's Firewall for iChat 2 and 3 as iChat 1 does not need the A/V ports and Leopard for iChat 4 has a different Firewall. Includes a picture of the table of Ports
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1 iChat Ports Firewall Sharing	2 iChat Ports Firewall Services tab	3 iChat Ports Firewall Select TAB
4 iChat Ports Firewall NeworEdit	5 iChat Ports Firewall Add Ports	Table of Ports

These are the Pictures for the Mac's Firewall for iChat 2 and 3 as iChat 1 does not need the A/V ports and Leopard for iChat 4 has a different Firewall. Includes a Picture of a table of the ports.
Click on a picture to enlarge. There an Navigation buttons to scroll through all the Pictures in this section.

Essentially this series takes you through the bit of System Preferences > Sharing > Firewwall Tab - use the Add or Edit Button and add the ports. I will deal with the differences between the Tiger (10.4.x) Firewall and the Jaguar (10.3.x) one on the relevant Picture page.

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©  2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006
Updated October 2008

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This series of Pictures is about the Mac firewall for iChat 2 and 3. (OS 10.2.5+, 10.3.x and 10.4.x)

iChat (version 1) deos not have the need for A/V ports and iChat 4 in Leopard has a different type of Firewall

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