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? :-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:19 AM, James Mcphee wrote: > 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 :) > > Do an "ip a" on you commandline and see if you have an IPv6 addy. > > inet6 fe80::4a5b:39ff:fe2c:7141/64 scope link > valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> 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? >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Michael Havens >> wrote: >> >>> the 'u' in ufw isn't uncomplicated but ubuntu! >>> >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:40 AM, James Mcphee wrote: >>> >>>> ufw is a ubuntu configuration tool for the standard linux netfilter >>>> firewall. >>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Michael Havens >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> gee.... is ufw enabled by default? >>>>> also, is it only a buntu thing or is it a debian thing? or is it a >>>>> linux thing? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:29 AM, James Mcphee >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> sudo ufw status verbose >>>>>> to see what it's up to >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Michael Havens >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> 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? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:57 PM, Michael Havens >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Why does one need to run ufw. What will it do? >>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> James McPhee >>>>>> jmcphe@gmail.com >>>>>> >>>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> James McPhee >>>> jmcphe@gmail.com >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > James McPhee > jmcphe@gmail.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >