logo Firewall Denial Log

Your firewall can optionally log each connection attempt that is blocked by one of your firewall rules.

Firewall logging is disabled by default when Mac OS X is installed. Logging could potentially use a lot of disk space if your machine is on a busy network.

Also, in the current version of BrickHouse, the denial log may display connection attempts to machines other than your own on the same network (which may be at someone else's house if you have DSL). This will be addressed in a future version of BrickHouse.

Refresh
Click the Refresh button to refresh the log display.

Export
The Export button will export the packets currently in the window to a tab-delimited text file.

Enable/Disable
If you wish to enable denial logging, click the Enable Button. Click Disable to turn it off.

You should re-install your firewall startup script (by clicking Install in the Configuration window) after you change this setting to have it set automatically when you startup your Mac.