Getting Pow to work in OS X Yosemite

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Getting Pow to work in OS X Yosemite

Some parts taken from: https://gist.github.com/kujohn/7209628

ipfw is officially deprecated and removed in OS X Yosemite. Pow requires another program pf to handle the port forwarding.

1. Anchor file

Create file /etc/pf.anchors/pow

rdr pass on lo0 inet proto tcp from any to 127.0.0.1 port = 80 -> 127.0.0.1 port 20559

Note: Trailing line break is important.

2. Reference anchor in pf.conf

Insert rdr-anchor "pow" and load anchor "pow" from "/etc/pf.anchors/pow" at correct places in /etc/pf.conf, so that it looks like this:

scrub-anchor "com.apple/*"
nat-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "com.apple/*"
rdr-anchor "pow"  # Pow port forwarding
dummynet-anchor "com.apple/*"
anchor "com.apple/*"
load anchor "com.apple" from "/etc/pf.anchors/com.apple"
load anchor "pow" from "/etc/pf.anchors/pow"  # Pow port forwarding

3. Enabling pf

Note: In newer versions of Yosemite Developer Preview, it seems that pf is enabled automatically on boot.

You can enable pf manually via sudo pfctl -ef /etc/pf.conf

However, to enable pf automatically after every boot, save the following as /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.pfctl.plist:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>pfctl</string>
<string>-e</string>
<string>-f</string>
<string>/etc/pf.conf</string>
</array>

Perfect, thanks!

By the way, if you are using the app SelfControl it can cause similar symptoms. If you need to fix it instantly, comment out the lines:

anchor "org.eyebeam"
load anchor "org.eyebeam" from "/etc/pf.anchors/org.eyebeam"

then restart pf.

Works. Thank you!

This worked for me. Thank you!

@jmaddi - brilliant! forgot all about that app. i can wait the remaining 1hr 47 min. :)