<div dir="ltr">xfrm deals with IPSec, which is a way of fiddling your IP packet payload to encrypt or compress or do any number of things on it. "man ip-xfrm"</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">you know I was wondering why you only did 'ip a' rather than 'ip addr' and tht got me to looking at the man page and while I was looking at it happened upon 'ip xfrm' and that got me to wondering about it. I can't figure out what it does. well, it seems to be a firewall. can someone explain it to me better?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:19 AM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">That's a good thing. Almost all linux distros give you an IPv6 addy by default, ubuntu is no exception. If they weren't blocking things in the firewall, you'd go and secure your IPv4 and leave your IPv6 wide open :)<div>
<br></div><div>Do an "ip a" on you commandline and see if you have an IPv6 addy.</div><div><br></div><div><div> inet6 fe80::4a5b:39ff:fe2c:7141/64 scope link </div><div> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever</div>
</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I was wondering, I was looking at the listening report in gufw (gui uncomplicated firewall) and one of the addresses it lists is an ipv6 address. Why is that? </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">the 'u' in ufw isn't uncomplicated but ubuntu!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div><div><div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:40 AM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">ufw is a ubuntu configuration tool for the standard linux netfilter firewall.<div><a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW</a><br></div></div><div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">gee.... is ufw enabled by default?<div>also, is it only a buntu thing or is it a debian thing? or is it a linux thing?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM, James Mcphee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmcphe@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmcphe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">sudo ufw status verbose<br><div>to see what it's up to</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">I have a question, I am on a forum and they are saying to enable ufw but they aren't saying to create any rules. SO ufw is enabled but it isn't filtering anything so ufw may as well not be enabled. Isn't that correct?</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Why does one need to run ufw. What will it do? <br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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