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Kernel socket structure and TCP_DIAG
I'm working on a software which connects to a Real Time data server (using TCP) and I have some connections dropping. My guess is that the clients do not read the data coming from the server fast ...
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Communication to device is lost when network starts on boot up?
I have an application that opens a socket on port 4444 to a device (/dev/linkToDevice). The "linkToDevice" is a link to ttyUSB0. The application is a c++ program of which is now a daemon and runs at ...
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How to limit all tcp traffic to the network interface the session was initiated on?
I have an embedded linux system with two network interfaces (lan0, wlan0) that are configured to the same subnet. A server on this system accepts tcp connections on both interfaces.
How I can assure ...
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Inject a packet to a different NFQUEUE
I have an NFQUEUE, for IPv6 packets hooked to PREROUTING chain of mangle table in ip6tables.
Once I receive a packet in user application, I modified the header. Infact, modified the header from IPv4 ...
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Best location and permissions for socket files
I will have a couple of WSGI applications. They will communicate with nginx using sockets. For that purpose I've created the directory /run/wsgi in which I will place all the socket files that are ...
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Does epoll give available bytes to read or write, and threshold feature?
kqueue gives available bytes to send or receive if file descriptior (such as socket) gets signal. and, kqueue gives threshold feature, for example, it does not signal until sufficient bytes are ...
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Symbolic link to a socket
From a security point of view, is it safe to create a symbolic link to a socket file? The following bits of context refer to the deployment of a web application on a shared hosting service.
$ ls -al ...
