[arm-allstar] Finicky Little Computer

Bryan St Clair bryan at k6cbr.us
Tue May 15 21:49:16 EST 2018


What is the first 2 octets of your static IP?

This may clarify a few things...

On Tue, May 15, 2018, 18:58 "Rory Bowers via arm-allstar" <
arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:

> Hi Doug,
> You wrote...
> I am wondering why you are using a firewall to begin with.
> This surprised me.  The answer is simple; to keep the Pi from being hacked.
> Is your Pi directly on the Internet?
> Yes... we have a static ip assignment on a port of a switch behind our
> isp's router with all ports open.
> Are you not using a nat'ed router?
> No we are not.  A nat'd router would be one more piece of equipment to buy
> and one more point of failure.
> There is no reason to use a firewall on your Pi in that case it just makes
> things more complicated.
> If this is the case then why did someone in the group go to all the trouble
> to write ufw??  I don't believe
> that ufw is going to complicate anything.  Only the necessary ports are
> open; my ssh port, a port for supermon, and port 4569.
> Does anything else need to be open?
> Linux is not Windows and has only the necessary ports opened anyway.
> Where is that configured?
>
> Rory, K5CKS
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:03 PM, "Doug Crompton via arm-allstar" <
> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
>
> > Rory,
> >
> >   ufw is not a program we support or even recommend using. I am wondering
> > why you are using a firewall to begin with. Is your Pi directly on the
> > Internet? Are you not using a nat'ed router?  There is no reason to use a
> > firewall on your Pi in that case it just makes things more complicated.
> > Linux is not Windows and has only the necessary ports opened anyway.
> >
> >
> > *73 Doug*
> >
> > *WA3DSP*
> >
> > *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>*
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:31 PM, "Rory Bowers via arm-allstar" <
> > arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
> >
> > > While I was trying to get supermon to run outside my lan I reset ufw to
> > ufw
> > > default allow incoming.  I then did ufw disable.  After getting
> > everything
> > > running in supermon I did a ufw default deny incoming.  ufw returned
> > > command not found.  ufw wasn't uninstalled that I know of, what would
> > cause
> > > this??
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Rory, K5CKS
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