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Author: James Mcphee
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Subject: Re: ufw
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~(-:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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