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" On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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