Questions tagged [ipv4]
Use the ipv4 tag ONLY if the nature of your question specifically involves IPv4 addresses or networking -- often in contrast to IPv6. Most networking currently involves IPv4 addresses, so you should NOT include this tag with every networking question.
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IP fragments are not reassembled due to packet loss in Linux
I have been working with a device that sends heavy TCP/IP traffic.
I'm trying to capture those packets in my Linux machine (Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS) with Python programming language.
But, most of the time ...
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What's the difference between IP forwarding via /etc/sysctl.conf and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward? [duplicate]
I've only used /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to enable/disable IP forwarding so far.
However, I recently came across a video where the author uses /etc/sysctl.conf to enable IP forwarding. Did he do ...
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In LINUX what commands will validate an IP/CIDR is correct for the physical network?
Internal to a Linux system (RHEL8/CentOS8), what linux commands can assist in detemining that a given IP/Netmask (CIDR) is correct for the network assigned to these hosts?
For the following examples, ...
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DNS wont resolve on Fedora 37
I just installed Fedora 37 on my laptop and cannot get the DNS to resolve despite attempting every remedy I’m capable of completing.
I am new to Linux and do not understand the jargon, I can use the ...
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Highest performance way to route traffic from IPv4 to IPv6 on Linux?
I have a use case where I want to forward certain IPv4 ports incoming into a machine, to to the same ports on another machine that uses IPv6.
I assume I can do this with [auto]ssh, but wonder if this ...
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How should I edit my /etc/network/interfaces entry for both ipv4 and ipv6?
I have an entry for my PC's Ethernet adapter in /etc/network/interfaces; say that it's:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.123/24
gateway 192.168.0.1
dns-nameservers 192.168.0.1
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ping google.com within the Oracle Linux 9.1 VM is not working
I have installed the Oracle VM VirtualBox in my laptop. Then I downloaded the Full ISO image for Oracle Linux 9.1 version (via https://yum.oracle.com/oracle-linux-isos.html) and used that in order to ...
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WGet fails to download with an IPv6 address
When I try to download something with WGet, usually it fails if the domain name is translated to an IPv6 address.
That happens more often when there's a link redirection.
For example:
$ wget --inet6-...
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curl using socks5 proxy and IPv4
When using curl with socks5 proxy, seems that my IPv4 addressing is gone:
$ env ALL_PROXY=socks5h://localhost:8001 curl -4 ipconfig.io
2607:xxxxxxxx:681f
$ curl -4 ipconfig.io
97.xx.xx.116
What is ...
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How to find link-local address of the other device?
What command can I use to find the link-local address of the device I am connected to? I am connected to the other device via link-local ONLY so entering its normal IPv4 address no longer works. ip ...
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Preferring cable over WLAN connections from the other end
Imagine a home network with an internet router that assigns DHCP addresses
to all the connected machines. It has a dynamic DNS server that learns the
hostnames of attached machines from their DHCP ...
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debian 8: My machine started to only use IPv6 for *outgoing* connections. How to go back to IPv4?
I'm running debian 8 on my server. Recently, the server starting only using IPv6 for all outgoing TCP connections. It still accepts IPv4 for incoming connections, however.
Because of this, I can't ...
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How to connect a QEMU VM to the internet over host's network?
I typed the following command into my terminal:
qemu-system-ppc64le -boot menu=on -device e1000,netdev=network0 -drive file=myVM.qcow2,format=qcow2 -machine pseries-2.12 -m 4G -netdev user,id=network0 ...
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How do packets flow through the kernel
When it comes to packet filtering/management I never actually know what is going on inside the kernel. There are so many different tools that act on the packets, either from userspace (modifying ...
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"Connecting...", "Connection failed. Activation of network connection failed" How to find out what does it mean exactly? (ping works)
I've connected two PCs running Linux Mint 20.2 with NetworkManager with Ethernet cable. On enabling the interface PCs obtained ip6 addresses and I'm able to ping one from another. But I'm getting ...
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Convert list of IP into fixed CIDR form
Is there a tool that we can convert a list of IP into a fixed network CIDR form with x.x.x.0/24 and x.x.0.0/16? For example, to demonstrate this, I have list of IPs that possibly can be converted to ...
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Specify which of my machine's IP4 or IP6 addresses is to be used for a curl request
My linux box has 3 IP4 addresses and a range of IP6 addresses.
Supposing I wish to make a curl fetch, how to stipulate from which address the request emanates?
Note: I'm actually using Python/PyCurl, ...
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Is Fedora 34 configured for IPv4 link-local addresses?
This page, linked from the avahi-autoipd man page says:
Most modern Linux distributions already include full IPv4 link-local support
However, if I look at the routing table on my Fedora 34 machine, ...
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common intranet service to reflect IP address
how can I get my apparent intranet IP Address (i.e. my VPN address) using a common service or hack within the intranet?
A useful Internet service is http://ifconfig.me which reflects the apparent ...
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Netplan: give IPv6 priority over IPv4
On a dual-stack workstation (single interface, Ubuntu 18.04), I'd like IPv6 to be chosen first, before IPv4.
I guess that means essentially to have domains being resolved first by DNS6, and then by ...
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Router with nftables doesn't work well
I have Debian 4.19.194-1 as a router server with LAN, WAN, PPPOE (as gateway) and COMPUTER1 in LAN network which should have access to internet through Debian router.
As firewall I use nftables with ...
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wpa_supplicant: disable IPv6
I don't have support for IPv6 on my system, and I am only using IPv4. My wpa_supplicant logs are flooded with following error messages:
wpa_supplicant[3370]: nl80211: Failed to open /proc/sys/net/...
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getaddrinfo() return both ipv4 and ipv6 while local system has ipv4 only
I use getaddrinfo(3) to get list ip address from a domain which support both ipv4 and ipv6, but the local system support ipv4 only or both ipv4 & ipv6, As I expect, if system support both ipv4 &...
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How to resolve IPv4 first on Alpine Linux?
It seems that when resolving hosts on Alpine Linux, the default behavior is to try IPv6 first and falling back to IPv4.
But sometimes it takes a lot of time to resolve, and there are connections when ...
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mapping ipv4 to routable ipv6 addresses (OpenVPN, NAT, iptables, nftables)
I have to connect multiple, potentially hundrets of networks (branch offices) with overlapping network ranges to a single "core" network using OpenVPN. I wonder if there is a tool that helps ...
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`dig -4` returns IPv6 address
Why would dig -4 return an IPv6 address?
% dig -v
DiG 9.16.5
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% dig -4 @8.8.8.8 TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com | grep TXT
; <<>> DiG 9.16.5 <<>> -4 @8.8.8.8 TXT o-o.myaddr.l....
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How to avoid IP collisions of RNDIS devices?
Scenario is like this: I have a couple of devices using autoip and mdns over rndis (ethernet over USB) to connect to a host:
You connect them with usb, the PC detects an rndis device, both ends choose ...
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ETH0 no address ip with ifconfig
I've created a new LXC on debian jessie, but it doesn't have an ipv4 address. When I connect to my LXC and do ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr blabla
inet6 addr: blabla/64 ...
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IPv4 iptables blocks things, but output policy is ACCEPT, what is the problem with my INPUT DROP chain?
This is my IPv4 iptables list at this moment:
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere ctstate ...
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Why does my Linux system have both private address and APIPA (link-local) assigned address on IPv4 interface
On Linux Kernel 4.19.94+, I could see IPv4 private and link-local address assigned to the interface eth0 as shown below. My understanding is that Automatic Private IP Addressing (APIPA) IP address (...
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How to add an IPv6 address?
The official Debian networking documentation tells to use:
ifup 6to4
But ifup is not found (ifupdown and ifupdown2 are commands not found too, even after having been installed). Does it have ...
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Network issues after setup a read only file system
I'm new to Linux (Raspbian Buster / Raspberry Pi 4 model B) and I have some network issues after setup a read only file system. I followed this guide to realize the ro fs.
My raspberry is connected ...
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Why does lsof indicate my IPv4 socket is IPv6?
I am looking at the output of lsof -i and I am getting confused!
For example, the following connection between my java process and the database shows as IPv6:
[me ~] % lsof -P -n -i :2315 -a -p xxxx
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ssh - packet_write_wait when connecting ipv4 connecting via ipv6 works - What are the next steps to debug?
What could cause ssh connections over ipv4 to drop after around a minute idle. When connecting to the same server using ipv6 the connection stays alive.
If running top, or otherwise interacting with ...
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Different IP:hostName mappings for same host in `/etc/hosts`. Why does this work?
My scenario
Relevant entries in my /etc/hosts (I have them written in the same order you see them here)
172.22.5.107 www.wordpress-rend-adri.com
192.168.1.116 www.wordpress-rend-adri.com
I use ...
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Ansible fact is undefined: `ansible_all_ipv4_addresses` is undefined
The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: ansible_all_ipv4_addresses is undefined.
Why would I be getting this error, if I am connecting over ipv4? I'm trying to dump ...
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Ip address is of 32 bit, which means 4 bytes. Yet all answers to question on 13 root dns servers say otherwise [closed]
All of the articles I read that explains why there are 13 root dns servers saying each ip address takes 32 bytes and hence (13 x 32) = 416 bytes leaving up to 96 bytes for other protocol information. ...
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hostapd clients don't get ipv4 addresses
I'm trying to setup a raspberrypi 4 as a wifi access point. Following the official documentation I managed to bridge my eth0 interface and setup hostapd. The bridges IP is provided by an exisiting ...
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nftables rules not blocking traffic
I am testing NFtables and am attempting to set up a basic routing firewall on a linux machine with 2 interfaces, ens37 and ens38. Here is the ifconfig output for these 2 interfaces.
ens37: flags=4163&...
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What happened to the "-4" option for command line FTP?
It used to be that you could force command line FTP to use IPv4 like so:
ftp -4 ftp.example.com
However, at some point in the relatively recent past the "-4" (and for that matter, the "-6") option ...
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Cannot open/access ports on Ubuntu
I created an Apache web server on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, using the guide described here. Afterwards the web server worked completely fine.
Later on I installed Libvirt onto the web server, after which ...
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How can I get the ipv4 address from `ip link` like I used to see with ifconfig?
When I run ip to get the ip address, I'm getting
$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:...
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How to connect to a IPv6 service using IPv4 connection on CentOS 7?
I'm trying to work out how to connect an inbound IPv4 connection to a port listening on a IPv6 port on a CentOS box.
To demonstrate on a vanilla CentOS 7 server:
Confirm bindV6only is disabled
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ntp using ipv6 address instead of ipv4
I have a laptop running a version of Linux ( 3.12 ). I have ntpd installed and configured to sync with time.google.com. The problem I am having is if I am plugged into a network that only provides ...
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How do I use grep to output only the names of files that contain any ipv4 address
I am using Red Hat Enterprise 6 and I'm trying to search through the /etc/ directory for files that contain any IPv4 address.
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Do the default settings of NetworkManager detect if there is a conflicting IPv4 address on the network?
Added support for detecting duplicate IPv4 addresses, with a timeout
configurable through the ipv4.dad-timeout connection property.
-- NEWS
dad-timeout / int32 / -1
Timeout in ...
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does :::80 in netstat output means only ipv6 or ipv6+ipv4?
If I am listening on :::80, is it listening on all ipv6 or all ipv6+ipv4?
This is my netstat -tln:
tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::*
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Get Wireless LAN IPv4 Address Of Device
I want to know the easiest way and I would perfer a single line command that works on most or all Linux distros. I want to get the devices IPv4 address.
The reason why I want to know this is because ...
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How can check ipv4 address in shell. Like is it *.*.1.* or *.*.0.*?
So here I tried to get from the ifconfig file, but same with errors with simple ifconfig command
!#/bin/sh
if [/home/pi/ifconfig | grep -Eo ‘inet (addr:)?([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*’ | grep -Eo ‘([0-9]*\.){3}...
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Setting 'DF'-bit in IP-header inside pcap file
There is some .pcap-file with fragmented IP traffic. I replay this file with tcpreplay, but also I need to replay it with DF (don't fragment) bit set in some packets.
I supposed that tcprewrite will ...
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