Questions tagged [tcp-ip]
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Can I have a single server listen on more than 65535 ports by attaching an IPv4 address
I have a number of servers to SSH into, and some of them, being behind different NATs, may require an SSH tunnel. Right now I'm using a single VPS for that purpose. When that number reaches 65535 - ...
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Packet routing from docker container to host ip
I am wondering what is tbe route for a packet sent from src being the docker container with its own 'dockerised' IP, to the IP address of the VM, on which this docker process runs? Will the packets ...
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How to control PulseAudio latency for zeroconf-publish network sinks
I have a USB sound card connected to a Raspberry Pi that I would like to use remotely.
I've configured PulseAudio on the Pi with zeroconf:
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;...
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socket statistics (ss) program weird ipv6 listening socket address format
I have two services listening on TCP/IPv6 sockets, ssh and mysql. ss shows this:
$ ss -tl6
State Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port ...
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Why do my Send-Q keep getting loaded but nothing come out of it?
I'm currently diagnosing a issue related to packet forwarding. I forward link layer packets to B network namespace and I found that B network namespace didn't reply to them, but I could curl and view ...
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Dropping RSTs vs using NOTRACK
I'm in process building my own firewall. One can say I'm building user space TCP/IP stack.
However, When Kernel receive packet that it can't identify, Kernel would send out RST + ACK (Not sure whether ...
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Interface with apipa (i..e. 169.254.x.x)
I have a ubuntu machine with two interfaces (eth0 and eth1). Eth0 interface has a dhcp address and eth1 has apipa (169.254.x.x) address. eth1 is not connected and eth0 is connected to a local network. ...
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How many times is the data packet copied before finally reaching the NIC?
On a typical linux machine, how many times would packets be copied from the application layer to all the way in its journey to the network card. I am assuming the protocol being used here is TCP/IP ...
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Alternative to modifying /etc/hosts for dns lookup
I am a networking newb - ping cannot locate certain dns names, so I put them in /etc/hosts like this:
10.128.0.22 kafka.marathn.meso
10.128.0.31 elasticsearch.marathn.meso
and then ping can find ...
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Why does telnet on a non existent port not directly reject, but time out?
telnet 8.8.8.8 8888
displays
Trying...
I was expecting, that this directly is refused.
Background: When we have a NGINX reverse proxy server, it would be great, that it detects directly when the ...
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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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using PPP without TCP/IP
I'm using a PPP to communicate with a device. So far what I have been doing is instantiating PPP on my machine (Fedora 29) and on the device (Yocto Linux). Then I open a TCP/UDP socket and communicate ...
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Send TCP packet to the same source [closed]
I want to design a system which reduce travel time of packet what is happening in reality is I send a SYN bit from client side, this bit travel through router then to server and server reply SYN+ACK ...
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Routing multiple Virtual IP (192.168.11.X) to connect with test server (192.168.10.246)
We are trying to setup a test bed for our server testing, to simulate multiple connection / msg handling, I am trying to connect to our test server from a virtual IP.
on the client machine (Debian) ...
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How to map an IP address to localhost
So I have an IP Address 5x.2x.2xx.1xx I want to map to localhost. In my hosts file I have:
cat /etc/hosts
127.0.1.1 test test
127.0.0.1 localhost
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable ...
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TCP Stack tuning,(TIME_WAIT) - python process ignores sysctl setting?
I'm playing around with tuning various tcp settings for high number of outgoing client connections. I've put following in my /etc/sysctl.conf on Ubuntu 16.04.
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 18000 ...
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UDP or TCP hole punching to connect two peers (each one behind a router)
I'm trying to connect directly (without 3rd party server) my computer to a friend's computer. We are both behind a ISP router, and would like (as a challenge!) to connect without modifying the router ...
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linux failed to assign local port
Our nginx reported a error below:
2017/10/19 10:47:40 [crit] 41689#0: *23414459 connect() to 127.0.0.1:1234 failed (99: Cannot assign requested address) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.0.0.1,...
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Unordered ACK answer
is there any body knows ; how a server answers to client what if they send first packet as non-syn or the server finish the connection and wait for a new connection instead of getting an ACK or push ...
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why doesn't port 80 show up via firewall-cmd command?
Doesn't port 80/http need to be explicitly opened like other ports (such as 443/https or 8080/server), or is it a special case?
on my machine (CentOS Linux release 7.3.1611)
firewall-cmd --list-...
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syncookies and tcp options
enabling syncookies is helping against some attacks
but the official docs still say syncookies seriously violate TCP protocol, do not allow
to use TCP extensions
Today I discover that once upon ...
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Connect beaglebone black running Debian Image 2015-11-12 to PC through Ethernet.
I have the Beaglebone powered through 5V and the ethernet in a open port on my PC. I have added the lines to /etc/network/interfaces
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.1.80
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IS there a means of identifying the application path for the process which attempts to access the internet on a linux distributution?
Is there a means (kernel mode API) under Linux (any distro) that can identify the application path of a process that makes a connect() call and is attempting to access the internet ? Vice versa in the ...
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How to emulate LAN adresses locally?
I have this situation: a piece of software got hardcoded IP address (let assume it is being 196.10.10.100:20000) to which it binds a socket and sends TCP and UDP traffic to 196.10.10.9:20000 (...
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intercept traffic generated by pktgen
I'm generating traffic on a Linux host with pktgen. I thought I could intercept it with tc and apply certain actions, but apparently pktgen bypasses it and writes directly in driver. Is there a way to ...
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TCP keep-alive parameters not being honoured
I have a server running on my Linux box, also on which the following commands were run:
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_time
7200
$ cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_keepalive_intvl
75
$ cat /proc/sys/...
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How do I set a static IP address for a disconnected interface?
I am setting up an Arch/Manjaro-based machine that only occasionally will be connected to network. I.e. most of the time its Ethernet card is disconnected.
I run into this curious problem - when I ...
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Simple shell script to send socket message
For testing purposes I need to create a shell script that connects with a remote IP>Port and sends a simple text TCPIP Socket message.
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change TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN at runtime
Linux kernel defines a timeout to destroy TIME-WAIT state of a connection in include/net/tcp.h:
#define TCP_TIMEWAIT_LEN (60*HZ)
Is there a way to change this parameter at runtime, via sysctl or /...
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How authentication is done between two nodes in tcp/ip or udp client server socket
I have a client socket program and server socket program in C TCP/IP . I execute the server program first on a port say 5000 and then executes client program on the same port and then server respond ...
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ICMP - Destination unreachable (Port unreachable)
I have two Ethernet-wired connected devices. I gave to both of them address from same sub-network. As result I can see second device in arp-table of the first.
$ arp -a
? (128.247.77.90) at 10:60:4b:...
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How do I configure Docker containers to have unique IP addresses that are not the default ones?
How do I configure Docker containers to have unique IP addresses that are not the default ones?
The Docker containers will run Apache or some web service. These Docker containers will share one host ...
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Why my server cannot serve more than 400 concurrent connections
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, kernel 3.13 in a Intel Xeon + 8Gb box. It has apache 2.4.7 configured in mpm worker with up to 4000 workers. The max bandwidth allowed by the ISP is 100Mbps.
If I test ...
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ICMP : Port unreachable error even if port is open
I am testing my Debian Server with some Nmap port Scanning. My Debian is a Virtual Machine running on a bridged connection.
Classic port scanning using TCP SYN request works fine and detects port 80 ...
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TCP/IP routes when using multiple DHCP servers
I have connected a computer (running Debian Wheezy) to two different DHCP servers (routers) through a cable and through a wifi device. If I look at the routes with route, I get the following result
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Unable to figure out how to route a packet through a multi-homed nic
The environment is FreeBSD for the most part and looks like this:
HOST_A <-> ROUTER <-> LOKI <-> HOST_B
Minimally, I would like to be able to ping ROUTER from HOST_B.
ROUTER is ...
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How can I edit /proc/net/tcp?
I need to edit 1 line in /proc/net/tcp while the file is also used by the linux kernel for updating other lines of it by the kernel.
Background: Each line in /proc/net/tcp represents a TCP socket. ...
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ip_conntrack and FreeBSD
We can figure out number of connections in GNU\Linux with ip_conntrack module, And I can print current connections and maximum of connections with:
root@debian:/home/mohsen/test/shell# sysctl net....
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How does tcp communicate back to the application? [closed]
Are there standard sytem calls to send data to TCP? And back? How does TCP tell the application to send more or less?
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How to investigate a random reset on TCP client port connected via loopback interface to a server
I have a test suite which initializes a server on the localhost and then runs thousands of stress tests which include starting and stopping clients connecting to this local server on same machine. I ...
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“tcpdump” to capture the last packets
I am monitoring a certain port, because my application uses that port, it seems that the connection drops at random times, I want to see what are the last packets passing through before the connection ...
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Is it bad to select remember me option in the browsers of a compromised machine?
I was reading an article on how to sniff network packets. (of course for knowledge purposes only). I came across these particular lines.
For instance, say I was sniffing traffic on the network, ...
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Comunicate with remote Serial over TCP/IP as /dev/ttyX device
I've one serial device on 192.168.x.x:yyyy (where "x" and "y" are real number) and it works correctly. But I want to communicate with this as /dev/ttyX device.
I've tested socat command but not ...
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Does an in-kernel firewall sit between the network access layer and Internet layer?
This question is a follow-up to my previous question.
Logic for me to says that an in-kernel firewall sits between the network access layer and the Internet layer, because it needs to have access to ...
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Disabling PHY auto-negotiation during Linux boot process on Xilinx
I'm trying to install Linux on an FPGA board. The linux flavour is petalinux for Xilinx FPGA chips.
The current Xilinx SoC has a Cortex A9 processor and a programmable hardware logic i.e FPGA. I ...
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What does net.ipv4.tcp_app_win do?
I can't figure out why do these variables coexist in Linux. The information from man tcp says (Ubuntu 12.04):
For tcp_adv_win_scale:
tcp_adv_win_scale (integer; default: 2; since Linux 2.4)
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How do I safely perform the below changes to network parameters on Solaris 10?
I need to change and test some TCP/IP network parameters on a Oracle Solaris 10 as a possible workaround for a bug in 'Oracle Hyperion EPM 11.2.1.0' in the development environment.
I am not a Solaris/...
