Ufw basics

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Last Updated: 2024-03-28

UFW Stands for Uncomplicated FireWall. It was developed to ease iptables

I had to use it to enable some opaque IPsec security protocol to communicate with a medical lab.

See what ports are blocked

sudo ufw status

Open port with TCP or UDP

sudo ufw allow 50/tcp
sudo ufw allow 500/udp

Deny a port

sudo ufw deny 53/tcp

Disable

sudo ufw disable

Re-enable

sudo ufw enable