Questions tagged [networking]
Managing and using network connectivity on a unix system
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Wi-Fi not working on Debian 9
I have a Debian 9 Stretch OS running.
Last night when I shut it down the Wi-Fi was working perfectly.
Today I turned my laptop on and it's not showing any Wi-Fi,
and I cannot enable Wi-Fi.
Here is ...
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Unable to connect to internet after enabling wake on lan on Debian 9
I've enabled Wake-On-Lan on my debian machine with this tutorial. I didn't have the option to try it out or reboot, and went to sleep. The next day, a power surge happened, and rebooted my computer, ...
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CentOS loses internet connection
I have configured CentOS VM, with NetworkManager disabled.
Question:
When I start VM I have access to the internet, but after a while I lose it.
How can I fix that?
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Logrotate is not compressing
I need to compress the files in var/log/remots/*/* with the following logrotate rule
/var/log/remots/*/* {
rotate 178
daily
maxage 178
compress
}
located in /etc/logrotate.d/remots.
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Security issues about running VirtualBox with bridged-adapter
I set up a Gnu/Linux VirtualBox, and I configured networking to support both NAT and bridged connections, in order to ssh to it remotely from a different PC in my network.
Since an IP was assigned to ...
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Reroute URL pointing to single file
Given I don't like i.e. a favicon and want my system to have i.e. https://kai.dj/favicon.ico pointing to https://git.kai.dj/favicon.ico instead.
Of cource I wouldn't like to reroute the whole domain (...
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Netstat operation [on hold]
I would like to have a deep sight about how netstat works ina low level. I mean, if I use netstat to see open ports, how netstat checks them (checking running processes or with some system functions ...
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Can not ping network switch Fedora 29
Setup
I have a dual boot fedora 29 & windows 10 setup.
The system is connected to a network switch via an ethernet cable.
The network switch is configured to serve a management web-ui on the ...
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Can i configure the browser to use one network interface and other apps to use the second?
I have a Linux box (Debian 9) with 2 NICs (Ethernet & Wifi) and they both connect to different networks. Is it possible to configure the browser to use the Wifi NIC and all the rest of apps to use ...
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When does `[::]` or `0.0.0.0` mean this network and when this host? [duplicate]
Tanenbaum's Computer Networks says
The IP address 0.0.0.0, the lowest address, is used by hosts when they
are being booted. It means ‘‘this network’’ or ‘‘this host.’’
[::] is IPv6 version of ...
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Dnsmasq/Ubuntu “NoDHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received”
I've spun up a Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) server* with the intention of mounting the DBAN .iso so that I can PXE boot this. *server version of Ubuntu but this is actually desktop hardware (a Dell ...
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Are the IPv4 and IPv6 networks for my loopback interface the same network?
In output of ifconfig:
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen ...
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How to receive data from a Webpage and send it back to it in the same connection?
I am trying to fill a form of a webpage with curl and give it some arguments. Dumb enough, it also sends a hidden form in which there is an unique token which has to be sent back to the page, a so ...
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Packet traversal in the Linux networking stack
I am trying to understand the packet traversal in Linux. I found a diagram from link.
My linux box has the following routing table:
default via 192.168.2.1 dev wlan0 proto static metric 1024
169....
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Getting Count of Packets Waiting in Kernel (or NIC) for Process
Is there any way for a process to ask the kernel how many network packets are waiting for it to handle? (I’m not sure whether those packets queue in the kernel or the NIC).
I’m running Clear Linux.
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How do I return packets to the same MAC address they came from?
Let me start with a diagram:
Workstation -> TrafficShaper -> Internet
| ^
V |
LinuxProxy ---------
My traffic ...
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Traffic between subnets VirtualBox
I'm trying to build a prototype of a real network in VirtualBox. I have 3 guest systems:
Debian-based router with 3 NICs:
enp0s3 Looks outsude.(bridged)
enp0s8 LAN1.(gateway to internal ...
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How to dump traffic without the usual tools like tcpdump?
I have a router which runs the Broadcom aeolus system: https://github.com/Broadcom/aeolus consisting of ecos and "normal" Linux.
I want to dump all the WAN traffic (controlled by ecos I think) or at ...
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Swap Primary and Secondary IP addresses on Raspbian 9.8
I'm trying to flip flop the IP addresses on eth0 and eth0:1 with as little downtime as possible.
So far I have tried changing the IP addresses in /etc/network/interfaces, then running ifdown eth0:1 &...
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Routing outgoing traffic between two NIC
I'm looking for a solution to proxify all the outgoing connections through several network interfaces so that they would appear to come from different IP's and I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 EC2's.
What I ...
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Have to restart network service after reboot (centos 7)
I am setting up a server which has a 4 ports (em1 to em4) QLogic network interface. It is connected though em3 and the IP address is automatically given by DHCP based on the mac address. I do not ...
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Installing Broadcom wi-fi driver in Debian without internet connection [on hold]
I have a MacBook and I need to install the wi-fi driver. However I don't have access to the internet from Debian. What should I do?
I have downloaded all the firmware .deb packages from non-official ...
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why MTU change from 1500 to 9000
in /var/log/message file we found something interesting
Mar 9 07:08:32 linux54 kernel: ixgbe 0000:0b:00.1 en3j87: changing MTU from 1500 to 9000
we can see the interface card - en3j87
change from ...
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services on host no longer reacheable from outside, after adding bridge
before adding the bridge, different http services were reachable from other hosts.
After adding the bridge, only ssh is reachable from other hosts.
All other services are only reachable from the host ...
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Adding a loopback interface
I would like to "overwrite" IP addresses that already exists on the public internet. So, I want to create multiple loopback interfaces on a machine, so I can ping any IP address that I configure from ...
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Is VPN a layer 3 or 5 concept? [closed]
From Tanenbaum's Computer Network
This demand soon led to the invention of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks),
which are overlay networks on top of public networks but with most of the properties of ...
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Capture and replay network traffic of a specific executable
Is there a tool that allows me to capture and replay network traffic of a specific executable? tcpdump/tcpreplay need root permissions (which I would like to avoid if possible) and are not aware which ...
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Dell poweredge running ubuntu server, redundant interfaces
I have an ubuntu server 18.04 with redundant internet interfaces.
As of now my ifconfig looks like this:
eno1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.0.150 ...
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Bind SSH client to two different host addresses
I have this port forwarding solution for testing purposes. There is a distant server named box and a local machine named tower, on two separate networks. box is accessible through the internet.
On ...
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How can I configure bidirectional protocol-independent port forwarding?
I am attempting to solve the following problem:
I have a system which I will henceforth refer to as "Local" that hosts a service on port 80 and port 443, and depends on sending outgoing requests on ...
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How to add a default route to a DHCP-enabled interface?
All my servers' networking is configured via DHCP which sends, among others, a static route (needed for a VPN) and a gateway. This works fine.
I have one exception: a server which should not get the ...
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Is there any way to know how many sockets have been created by a C program?
I have been running a C program which connects to a Redis database every once in a while. After running the program for a few hours it was displaying "Cannot create socket: too many files open". I'm ...
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How to set a static IP using netplan? (running Ubuntu Bionic server)
My problem is that no static IP is getting assigned to the built-in ethernet port. I have run netplan apply several times. I've also rebooted the PC and still no luck.
I am sure the ethernet port ...
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How to allow SSH over PPP?
I have these two computers connected through ppp.
One has ip 10.10.0.1 and the other has ip 10.10.0.2.
Both also have the interface ppp0 with netmask 255.255.255.255:
# ifconfig
ppp0: flags=4305<...
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Can I test telnet connectivity FROM multiple machines TO multiple machines, via a script?
I have 10 source machines and 10 destination machines. Each of those source machines need to connect to each of those destination machines.
I wrote a shell script which tests the telnet connectivity ...
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Link specific connections (ADSL or 4G LTE) to different software
I have access to two Internet connections from two different plans: ADSL and 4G LTE. In Xubuntu, I can chose a specific connection using the network manager applet, but then the one that is chosen is ...
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how to turn off tcp timestamps?
I tried to turn off the tcp timestamp but it didn't work.
The step i performed are the following:
$ sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps=0
$ sysctl -p
$ sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps (=> to be sure ...
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Use different connections (wifi + ethernet) to increase speed on lan
I have a laptop with a 100mb/s ethernet and a 75mb/s wireless connection to my internet router. This is the maximum speed each network adapter can get in my laptop, but my external link is higher.
I'...
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Ethernet network disconnected but the cable is actually plugged in
I have recently installed GalliumOS alpha on my Acer Chromebook 14. WiFi works flawlessly, but I can't get the Ethernet connection to work as network manager says "disconnected" under Ethernet Network....
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Curl giving different responses on connection timeout
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and I try to curl the unavailable resource like:
curl 192.168.11.1 --connect-timeout 10
curl 192.168.11.1 --connect-timeout 35
Why does it sometimes respond with
curl: (7) Failed ...
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How to install packages with no internet on Fedora 29?
I have a CHUWI Lapbook 15 which I want to install Fedora on. I will often start installation of Fedora with the server spin as it is minimal and doesn't need to first boot into a live cd.
The problem ...
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Multiple Remote KVM Computers
I want to ask if it is possible to have multiple (3-6) Windows Virtual machines on a Unix Server system. The Windows VMs should communicate with each other over the network and every VM should be ...
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TCP/IP quits after 48 hours
I have a problem with a (remote) server running SCO UNIX. It's been working for years, but was recently moved, and I changed its IP address & gateway address. Since then it works perfectly until ...
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Has the filtering of all kinds of TCP attacks using iptables become obsolete as they get filtered elsewhere or something else?
Background
I am on Debian 10 Buster. I started running a Tor relay on my home IP address. A dedicated full-fledged server is probably not the most energy efficient way, but I want to try it out. And ...
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grep routing table & execute command
I'm trying to make a script on my Linux machine that will grep for a specific routing in my routing table and execute command depends on the find.
This is what I have so far and it's not working:
#!/...
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How do you find the static (and dynamic) information about the network currently connected to?
Is there some command (on Linux) which report the static (and dynamic) information about the network currently connected to? For example, BSSD, encryption method (WPA, or ...), and more. In particular ...
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Network Bridge for VM not working after reboot
I have a CentOS 7 host with a network bridge set up for guest VM's to use. All was well until a recent reboot. After the reboot, the guest VM does not have internet access, nor can it ping other local ...
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Can’t connect to network Pop-OS 18.04
After using my Linux install for a while, I woke up this morning not being able to connect to the internet via WiFi. I found that I have no routes showing up when running the ip route command. I tried ...
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Why does cron require MTA for logging?
Why does cron require MTA for logging? Is there any particular advantage to this? Why can't it create a log file like most other utilities?
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KVM: how do I add host route when VM starts?
Is there a way to automatically add a host route (pointing to the VM IP) when VM starts ? ATM I'm doing this by hand. I've also tried to add a route via /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-virbr0 ...
