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Old 6th June 2014
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GUI tools to create (potentially complex) text files can be dangerous. For example, OSX uses FreeBSD ipfw as a firewall. A few years ago a number of vulnerabilities were found in the OSX GUI tool to manage this because it generated a "wrong" ipfw config file.

You have been warned

And, as pointed out, it's not that hard to create a basic pf setup. And you will learn more along the way And if you have any problems/more specific questions, you can of course always ask them.
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