Mac Forum / General / Networking / January 2005

I have a reasonably simple setup of a modem/router connected to the
Internet and a PowerBook on the home network. I would like to be able
to host a service that serves web content (not apache) from an
arbitrary port (for arguments sake 8080) on my powerbook _but_ with the

Is there a plug-in for Mail.app that will split digests into their
component messages?  I've subscribed to a mailing list that's sent out
as digests, and it would be nice if I could see the individual messages
more easily.

I'm new to this, so please consider me to be a "Firewall
challenged"type.  I'm running an iMac G4, w/ Panther, and I hope to
switch from dial-up to Comcast cable. I have turned on the firewall in
Panther, and I'm also running iPNetSentryX.  My iMac is the only

Noticing a lot of unusual activity on my DSL router, I checked the
snort logs and see thousands of these entries, averaging about once
per second:
**] [1:524:6] BAD-TRAFFIC tcp port 0 traffic [**]

I'm trying to set up Privoxy on my home network to filter web access for
my kids. It's mostly pretty easy: set up Privoxy to allow only specific
URLs (my kids are pretty young as of yet), tell it to accept proxy
connections from anywhere on my network (it's behind a NAT box so I

I've had cable modem for five months now and its great of course.
I'm under the impression that the cable modem acts as a firewall and it's all I
need. Also the Router acts as a firewall and its all I need.
Also, that it may not be good to have two firewalls.

I just got an internet telephone hookup but I can't see the packets on
the LAN using EtherPeek, Interarchy, or the OS X Network Utility.
Does anyone know of a utility to view these packets?  I am interested
in sending ring packets to the controller to test my house phones and

I just downloaded the Java bitTorrest client Azureus
<http://azureus.sourceforge.net/> During setup it recommends using TCP
port 6881 & it lets you test the port -- when I did I got 'NAT error.'
Since my cable internet connection is otherwise fine, I assume that my

Security Update 2004-12-02 delivers a number of security enhancements
and is recommended for all Macintosh users. This update includes the
following components:
Apache

Would appreciate constructive comments on how to net work with two PC's
running XP on my home network.
Briefly, I have a Linksys/Comcast Router/Gateway, with the PC's running
Window XP on a wireless LAN through the router, and my OLD Mac PPC G3

I would like to add an Airport Express to my wired network, to play
Airtunes.
I have not been able to establish, if the following scenarios are possible:
Current setup:

My machine (a new G4 PowerBook running OS X 10.3.7, software up-to-date)
just crashed - a full-on hang, with the little grey 'press your power
button' message popping up.
What induced this was a bluetooth transaction: another machine, running

Panther 10.3.7 is now accessible from Software Update.
The 10.3.7 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved
reliability for Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther" and is recommended for all
users.