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 <
jmcphe@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> the 'u' in ufw isn't uncomplicated but ubuntu!
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:40 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>> 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 <jmcphe@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> sudo ufw status verbose
>>>>>> to see what it's up to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>>> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Why does one need to run ufw. What will it do?
>>>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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