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Why is Gnome Shell sending data over my wireless network?

I have been checking which processes under my Fedora Linux 18 are using my upload bandwidth and I occasionally see that Gnome Shell is one of them. Why should it be sending data over my wireless ...
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What's the best way to have a 169.254.169.254 address local to my laptop?

I want to emulate the Amazon EC2 metadata service on my local system for testing. In EC2, this runs on 169.254.169.254. I understand that this is the designated range for pseudorandom local addresses ...
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Creating an Alias to Loopback Interface with an Arbitrary Name

I have an odd problem that seems simple enough but has evaded me thus far. I am attempting to support a legacy application that has a hard-coded ethernet device name ("eth0"). This hard-coding, I am ...
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Network has been disable after update on Fedora 17

I am having some technical problem on Fedora network. After I have done the update on my Fedora 17, I notice that the desktop GUI theme has been revert back to Gnome 2 (existing one is Gnome 3) and my ...
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Remote access SSH problem

I have been asked to setup a lab with 1 PC (fedora 18 OS) and 4 SGI (IRIX 6.5 OLD OS). I am using a switch to connect them to university's network, and I asked tech guys to assign static IPs to them. ...
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Unable to connect to remote host using ssh

I have recently installed Fedora in my system. But I am facing some problem in ssh login from remote machine. I am able to login in that system but every time its requires me to login using GUI in ...
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Allowing access to NetBIOS port in Fedora 18?

I've recently installed Fedora 18 on one of the machines in my office, and I've installed Samba so I can browse the file system on my Windows machine. However, I'm having some trouble opening port ...
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network interface does not become active although onboot enabled

Due to some other conflicts, I disabled/stopped NetworkManager in Fedora 15, Now, for network configuration I used system-config-network-gui to config & enable Ethernet interface, Problem is, ...
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Setting mobile broadband connection in Fedora 17

I am using a Dell Precision M4500. I've realized that there is a SIM slot underneath the battery slot, I suppose it is for using mobile broadband access. I am usually connecting to the internet ...
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How to setup wine for networking in linux

How to setup wine for networking? Unless i have linux access to my windows network, i can't do wine discover the windows network. How to do it?, also wine hasnt cmd line utility so i can't use ...
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RHEL how to sync network settings between GUI and configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/?

In RHEL, we can change network settings either using GUI or editing the configuration files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/. I would like to know how the network settings (e.g. IP address, ...
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No incoming connections on Fedora 17, except on port 80

All incoming connections seem to be refused on my Fedora machine, except on port 80 with apache. The ports I have tried are 8111 and 1111, neither does work. I have done the forwarding on my ...
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Run a command after acquiring IP address

I would like to run the command Urlsnarf -n -i p33p1 >> file when the p33p1 network interface gets its IP address. Initially I tried to run the command at bootup by adding the a crontab entry ...
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Fedora16, ekiga just works in superuser mode

I've got a fedora16 running and I'd like to use ekiga as a softphone. Now I'm running into some problems. Starting ekiga as a normal user gives me could not register (globally not acceptable) ...
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Add another IP address to a Bonding Interface

I have a Linux network Bonding interface for two Ethernet interfaces (eth0 and eth1) $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 DEVICE=bond0 BOOTPROTO=static ONBOOT=yes ...
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Why isn't my application receiving broadcast packets?

I have written a Qt application that listens for UDP broadcast packets on the network interface p2p1. I have installed the application in Fedora 17 i386 in a VirtualBox VM. For some reason, the ...
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How to enable WIFI on VMWare Fedora 12? (It's detecting and working fine on Windows 7)

I am new to Linux. I have Fedora 12 running on my VMware. I am unable to see any options to enable WIFI connection on Fedora. When I am accessing Internet through WIFI and its working perfectly fine ...
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Is Traffic Control (tc) broken in Fedora 17?

After upgrading from Fedora 16 to Fedora 17, Traffic Control no longer seems to work. Running # tc qdisc show will output: qdisc pfifo_fast 0: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 bands 3 priopmap 1 2 2 2 1 2 0 ...
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Cannot connect to fedora on port 80

I can't access to my local sites on a fedora machine from ubuntu. In firefox I get this error: The connection has timed out In fedora iptables I added this line: -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp ...
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dhcp: Host name lookup failure

I changed configuration of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 and used ifdown and ifup to reset it. Then used ifconfig eth1 dhcp start it does not work and say:dhcp: Host name lookup failure. ...
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DNS Issues on RHEL 6

I'm experiencing some DNS issues on a new RHEL 6 virtual machine. Ping is working fine to an IP, but the machine is unable to resolve any names. I've tried adding Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and ...
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Compling KUTE traffic generator 1.4 on Fedora Core 5

I am trying to install KUTE traffic generator on Fedora Core 5 kernel version 2.6.15. When I try to complile I get this error message: [root@dhcppc128 kute-1.4]# make make modules make[1]: Entering ...
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Cannot access to localhost with 127.0.0.1

When I type 127.0.0.1 in address bar of browser, I get the following result: Not Found The requested URL / was not found on this server. Apache/2.2.22 (Fedora) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80 What ...
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Port Mirroring in Fedora?

I have set up an application that listens constantly to a port for network packets, and I would like to create another one that receives the same network packets ( for use as a test bed). Getting the ...
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Fedora 15: em1 recently dissapeared and hostapd no longer serves internet to wirelessly connected devices

I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace's wifi devices. After ...
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NetworkManager on Fedora 15 can't find frequently used wireless network

NetworkManager has refused to find the wireless network I always connect to. It sees other wireless networks except the one which I need. In recent past occasions, I've had to delete the wireless ...
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How to do “netcat” relays properly so that I have more control?

How to use the netcat to have relays? Like following I tried but not working: cd /tmp mknod backpipe p nc -l -p 7007 0<backpipe | nc 192.168.1.101 9001 | tee backpipe I want to receive data on ...
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Running a pbk file in Linux

To connect to my university's network, they provided me with a .pbk file. The file is made for windows of course and I have no idea how to use it in Fedora (I'm using Fedora 15)
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Netdiscover packages for Fedora?

Ubuntu has a program called netdiscover. Netdiscover is an active/passive address reconnaissance tool, mainly developed for those wireless networks without dhcp server, when you are wardriving. It ...
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Installed TigerVNC, can't connect?

I've just installed TigerVNC on my Fedora 15 machine from the package manager then in terminal (as root): chkconfig vncserver on service vncserver start None gave me errors, so I went back to the ...
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Fedora 15 won't remember wireless password

I just installed Fedora 15 beta with Gnome 3. I've done all the updates. The networking applet asks for the wireless password every time it connects. I found this bug, which says that the issue is ...
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After cloning Fedora 14 install to another machine, onboard NIC is seen as eth1 instead of eth0. Why?

I have the following procedure for replicating a Fedora workstation setup. Boot from a Live CD, make tgz's of the filesystems. Go to new machine, make filesystems, dump the tgz's in the proper ...
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How do I set up an IPv6 tunnel in Fedora?

I have been experimenting with IPv6. Hurricane Electric through their http://tunnelbroker.net service offer a free IPv6 tunnel. I would like to be able to use this reliably on my Fedora 14 desktop ...
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How to access network without NetworkManager?

If I don't have NetworkManager installed on Debian, I edit "/etc/network/interfaces" and then run ifup eth0. I see that things are different in Fedora 14 (the directory and the command aren't ...
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Run daemon on startup in Fedora 13 after wireless interface is up

I want to have radvd (the IPv6 router advertisement daemon) run on startup on Fedora 13. However, the network interface that it will use must be up, otherwise the daemon won't start. If I run the ...
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Neworking getting Disabled

I am using Fedora 13 and its working great. The only problem which I am facing is that the networking gets automatically disabled if I put my system on the "SUSPEND" mode for > 30mins. I am unable to ...