I noticed a few days ago but just really started to look into it and I can't find any info on the net about it.
My networking skills are nothing short of sad but I am at a loss. I am worried about this because GUFW keeps blocking it so I think it might be bad?
Here it is
ifconfig
I have no idea what en2s0 or wlxc is...Please someone tell me not to worry.
Please provide the output of the following command:
lshw -C network
enp2s0 looks like your standard cable network interface
lo is the normal loopback interface
tun0 is your VPN interface
Which, depending on your machine specs would leave wlxc4e9841564f9 as some kind of Wi-Fi interface.
Edit: if you’re surprised because you’re not seeing the classic eth0 and wlan0 interfaces, it’s because it was changed recently and there’s a very good reason for that.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: enp2s0
version: 06
serial: d8:cb:8a:33:28:e3
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:26 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:fdfff000-fdffffff memory:fdff8000-fdffbfff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:4
logical name: wlxc4e9841564f9
serial: c4:e9:84:15:64:f9
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k_htc driverversion=4.4.0-28-generic firmware=1.4 ip=192.168.1.85 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
That output from lshw validates what I said in my previous post.
I wouldn’t worry too much about gufw.
I too have a lot of traffic that gets stopped by ufw and logged.
Most of it is multicast traffic.
It doesn’t hurt (me) to block it.
Thanks I Just Don’t understand what it is and why it would be there.[quote=“ouroumov, post:2, topic:7177”]
Edit: if you’re surprised because you’re not seeing the classic eth0 and wlan0 interfaces, it’s because it was changed recently and there’s a very good reason for that.
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Thanks I will give it a read when I get back. Thanks!
