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Mac OSX Software Update behind pf
Recently switched to a firewall running 5.6 -stable and pf. Nothing fancy, but relatively restrictive, outbound packets are blocked by default.
The only thing I can't get working is OSX's Software Update / App Store. I have found old references in forums and mailing lists that scrub's reassemble tcp is a problem and disabling it will make software update work again. This hasn't been the case for me. I imagine things have changed quite a bit in the last 4 or 5 years since that tip. Has anyone had recent experience with this situation? I tried disabling scrub, set reassemble no, allowing all outbound traffic from the mac. I can watch the traffic on the mac and on the router and I see packets going back and forth, but nothing ever comes up in Software Update. |
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Ok. So you're not using reassemble tcp.
I'm stumped then. I don't know why this doesn't work for me. Maybe the Mac needs a reboot... Maybe I've confused it will all the firewall changes. I'm running Mavericks currently. Is your kid's Mac a recent OSX? Tim. |
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No I checked one more time. I think I run in the past but then I removed and I can't recall what was reason but updating MAC had nothing to do with it. I was reading PF documentation and there was something I read which made me remove reassemble line.
My kids run Lion |
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So...it needed a reboot. I thought I was done with that nonsense when I left Windows behind.
I still had to remove reassemble tcp, too, though. Thanks. Tim. |
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