Does TENS have a firewall?

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  1. Uitlander

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    Dead distribution!!!

    If you scroll down into distrowatch (your link), you'll see that iptables frontend firewall manage NETFILTER.

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    The Trusted End Node Security project, better known as TENS, is a product produced by the United States of America's Department of Defence and is part of that organization's Software Protection Initiative. The TENS project has announced it has lost funding and will be discontinued in the near future. "DISA has announced that they are no longer willing to fund the TENS program. Without a champion organization and funding, the program will be decommissioned in the coming months." While Linux distributions often rise and fall, due to limited time or funds, it is unusual for a government-backed distribution to die out due to a lack of funding.
     
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    Yeah, saw that, but is there a way to turn on the firewall like in AntiX in LiveCD mode, or is it running by default, or what?
     
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    Dead distribution? Don't care. Does it work? It does! It's actually ready to go faster than any other LiveCD I have. My only reservation is whether of not it has a firewall on by default, or can it be turned on...is it like crappy Debian with none at all...and I have to rely entirely on the NAT & SPI of my hardware firewall?
     
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    Ok so,
    open Terminal :
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    sudo systemctl status iptables
    If it's return nothing (i guess it is), you'll have to enable and set it up.
    Need further help for setting it, tell me

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    With Debian I do:
    sudo ufw enable
    Maybe that's not the best, but it works. (I guess)
     
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    According to https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=tens if you list alls packages, there is no ufw so it can't work. if distrowatch missed to list ufw, of course it should work.
    iptables and ufw are both frontend to manage Linux NetFilter firewall.

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    I was merely stating what I’m doing with Debian.
    Don’t know if UFW is already provided with TENS, or if you must install it with apt.
     
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