Questions tagged [udp]
User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks. This protocol assumes that the Internet Protocol (IP) is used as the underlying protocol.
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create a UDP to serial bridge with socat
I have a piece of software that transmits data over a UDP connection. However in our system we can transmit data only over a serial port. I was thinking of making a bridge between a UDP and serial ...
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What UDP destination port(s) does mtr -u use?
traceroute sends UDP packets to port 33434 (and up) by default.
I assume mtr -u (manual, homepage, github) does the same, but I can't find any documentation or test results to verify the destination ...
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UDP reverse proxy
Is there any easy way of doing userspace UDP reverse proxying?
Specifically, I want the equivalent of
ssh -R 10000:localhost:10000 $server
but for UDP.
I want this approach to be unreliable in the ...
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ncat v7.6 UDP -k and -w not working as expected
At work ( BSD nc version ) and on many internet examples ncat can listen to udp and be used with the following options :
-k which allows multiple connections
-w 0 which terminates the current ...
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How to route all snmp request to remote deivces from a local machine through a proxy server
I have to forward all snmp request to remote deivces from a local machine to proxy server. Is it possible ?
The actual requirement is like i have set of network devices that are only accessible ...
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systemd service - udp broadcast can't reach other machine
I have a service located under /usr/lib/systemd/system. This service runs the app that i've been developing (.net core 2.0). Same app runs on different machines (centos7 both). They use udp sockets to ...
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UDP socket in UNCONN state when using iproute2's ss
While editing some firewall rules on a machine that has an OpenVPN client running, I was trying to determine its remote port, as I usually do, using ss.
# ss -anup | grep openvpn
UNCONN6528 0 0....
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How to confirm if rsyslog transmit only UDP mode
We have rsyslog conifigured and configured is as below
$ grep -vE '^#|^$' /etc/rsyslog.conf
$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
$ModLoad imklog #...
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Send UDP Packet to Memcached via Netcat
I am attempting to send the stats command to memcached via netcat, however, I am not getting anything back from memcached...
I have tried
echo "stats" > commands.txt
nc -u 127.0.0.1 11211 < ...
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Application cannot receive UDP packet from Sony camera
I have a scenario with three devices: Android-Smartphone, Linux-Laptop (Linux mint) and a Sony a7R camera.
My goal is to talk to the camera using the laptop and Sony's http-SDK via WiFi (Cam opens an ...
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Debian configure OpenSIPS for Websocket and UDP
I'm trying to configure OpenSIPS with OverSIP so that I could make a SIP call between a webrowser and a sip client app like Yate or Linphone.
The call between two client apps (Yate/Linphone) works ...
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UDP Multicast not seen on PiZero with Raspbian
Looking for help troubleshooting my missing UDP Multicasts.
Some background... So I finally got an Amazon Echo and was playing with fauxmo on my PiZero to see if Alexa could find my device, but she ...
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UDP hole punching with a third party
I am now convinced that direct "UDP hole punching" between 2 people each of them behind a NAT, without 3rd party server is really difficult / sometimes impossible (see question here and my answer ...
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What is the OpenVPN port range?
The default UDP port for OpenVPN is 1194. Is there a port range for OpenVPN, and if that is the case, what is the port range?
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Why is /proc/net/snmp not showing Udp InCSumErrors?
I'm running Oracle Linux 6.5, kernel 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64.
When I look at the Udp snmp stats it does not show me InCsumErrors. How can I see this stat?
cat /proc/net/snmp | grep Udp\:
Udp: ...
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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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UDP port unreachable although process is listening
I am experimenting with communication over UDP port 6666 (the goal is setting up a listener for netconsole, but that's not really relevant here).
On the listening side, nc -luv 6666.
On the sending ...
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Why does a UDP client send 1Gbit speed to 100Mbit server?
I've just found out that in a simple UDP client/server application I wrote on Linux userspace, the UDP client (1 Gbit Ethernet interface) sends the data with 1 Gbit speed to a UDP server which has ...
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Cannot see packets arrive on application socket that were seen by Wireshark
Using Ubuntu 14
I have a Linux machine where there are two interfaces:
eth1: 172.16.20.1
ppp0: 192.168.0.2
ppp0 is connected to a device which has a PPP interface (192.168.0.1) and a WAN interface (...
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High network latency after incoming UDP bursts [closed]
This has been crossposted to https://forum.rocketboards.org/t/high-network-latency-after-incoming-udp-bursts/1266
I have an application sending UDP packets over a RAW socket (defining ETH, IP and UDP ...
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write error for rmem_max on Angstrom
I am trying to tune the UDP receive and transmit buffer size. According to my real time application needs, I need to configure the Tx buffer as 6 bytes and Rx buffer as 22 bytes.
I am running Angstrom ...
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Redirecting specific UDP traffic?
I am trying to forward UDP traffic to/from a specific IP to a pseudo-interface:
iptables -I FORWARD -s [WAN-IP] -p udp -j ifb0
I have also tried (without success):
iptables -A OUTPUT -d [WAN-IP] -p ...
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Ubuntu - UDP Traffic on port 123
I have noticing that, lately, my Odroid's ethernet LED is constantly blinking, even when I'm expecting no traffic. I ran iptraf and, besides the attempts of SSH brute force guess attempts (that are ...
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Limiting socat udp to receive one packet or timeout
When testing certain multicast connectivities in the past I have been using socat to do this:
socat -u UDP4-RECVFROM:12345,add-membership=224.1.2.3:eth0,fork,reuseaddr,readbytes=32 SYSTEM:"hexdump -C"...
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Prioritize UDP over FTP, SCP, etc. in Linux
I have a setup wherein one "master" Linux system communicates with 3 "slave" systems also running Linux on a dedicated Ethernet interface(just the master & the 3 slaves). The slaves send data to ...
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Transmission-Daemon not working (Debian 8 / OpenVZ) UDP Issue
I'm trying to install transmission on my VPS (under OpenVZ) to download torrents on it.
When running something like:
transmission-cli example.torrent
It'll print:
transmission-cli 2.84 (14307)
[...
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Responses from multicast 255.255.255.255
On one particular box, i cannot get responses to broadcasted messages to (255.255.255.255). For example
Sending DHCPDISCOVER
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255
And see even responses from ...
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Do incoming LAN UDP packets create an entry containing senders MAC in receivers ARP table in Linux?
When Linux receives a UDP packet originating from a sender having a LAN source IP, will Linux put the source MAC address of this packet along the source IP address into the ARP cache table?
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Beaglebone Black not able to send raw UDP Packets with Python to laptop running Ubuntu 16.04
I created a Python 3.6 script that creates a raw UDP Packet over ethernet to a system with a known MAC Address and IPv4 Address. This script is running on a Beaglebone Black (BBB) that is connected ...
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Why does the udp port not open?
I am investigating how to open a UDP port, specifically the port 1194. This is what I've done:
Check if the port is opened:
% sudo nmap āsU āp 1194 <hostnameOfMyMachine>
-> PORT STATE ...
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How to display an UDP connection?
ss and netstat seem to not be working.
Adobe Flash RTMFP protocol creates a lots of UDP connections. I want to know, who is connected to me.
I can see intense data-send traffic from the monitor.
I ...
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Sending UDP packets to a destination
On my Linux machine, I am receiving UDP packets from another machine. When I receive the UDP packets, I get the message
"Listening on UDP port : 8999"
This is triggered by the following command ...
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Why is my trace route (mtr) binding a UDP port when it runs?
I occasionally audit the open ports on my machine to make sure I fully understand my attack surface. When I did this today, I discovered that mtr was listening on a high UDP port (which seemed to ...
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Can't receive UDP packets wireshark sees them
I have an application_A in HOST_A sending UDP messages. In HOST_B I am able to see the UDP packet in wireshark but application_B (running in HOST_B) doesn't receive them.
I can verify that ...
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How does the TCP/IP stack handle UDP packets to local host and a destination address of yourself?
I am trying to understand how the network stack (TCP/IP) handles a UDP message to localhost. I am assuming it goes down the stack and gets to the IP layer, if it sees localhost it then sends it back ...
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When does the kernel cut UDP datagram into MTU chunks?
I need your help/hints/remarks on an issue I'm having. Thanks
Here is some context :
I have two application(A1 & A2) handling PDUs with a max size of 1700bytes.
Each app is on a different card(C1 ...
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Reliable network client discovery (not mDNS?)
I have (Linux-based) devices on a DHCP/ IPv4 network whose UI is via browser/ mobile app (over the LAN.) The tricky part is discovery of the device's IP address. We've been trying to use mDNS/ DNS-...
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UDP internal routing issue when using multiple NIC's
I have a server that has two ethernet ports, each one running on a separate NIC (eth0 and eth1). I would like to connect eth0 to a separate machine that streams video over UDP (and no other traffic) ...
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UDP multicast client over ipv6
Simple Python UDP Server: trouble receiving packets from clients other than localhost
I am trying to listen datagrams over ipv6. Here are the messages I am interrested in:
$ sudo tcpdump | grep ...
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File defining the service assigned to each port
I know there are already nmap and netstat commands we could use to see all open port on Ubuntu. However, I know there exists a file with all port and the service assign to each port. Could anyone have ...
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Using tc, I want TCP and UDP to use the same buffer
I have 2 types of traffic
TCP
UDP
I want to apply 2 different filters on them, 1 Mbps b/w for UDP and 7 Mbps b/w for TCP
But I want their traffic to use a common buffer of size 100 packets
I've ...
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Detecting where to bind to receive a UDP broadcast
I'm writing an application that needs to capture and print UDP broadcasts. The network interface in use is:
enp0s3: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.10....
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Send Apache Catalina Logs to Logstash
Dependencies :
OS Version : CentOS 5.0
Server Environment : Production
Logstash Version : 5.0
Elasticsearch Version : 5.0
I have several app servers running on CentOS 5.0. All these are on-...
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how to forward all UDP traffic to VPN client IP with ufw
I'm using sipgate with freepbx and I've got down to what I presume is the final hurdle with the one-way audio issue.
From everything I've read the issue points to NAT. I need to forward all UDP ...
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Tcpdump - counting outgoing and incoming UDP packets
Is it possible with tcpdump to count (for some set up time) the number of outgoing and incoming UDP packets?
I don't have much experience in tcpdump, so an advice how to do that would be very helpful....
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iptraf shows traffic on UDP/443, why?
Somehow, iptraf is telling me that I am getting traffic via port 443 in UDP instead of TCP.
I checked the firewall several times, and UDP port 443 is definitely not open. I have that TCP port (...
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Are /dev/{udp,tcp} standardized or available everywhere?
I've recently learned about the /dev/udp and /dev/tcp pseudo-devices here. Are they specific to some GNU/Linux distributions or can I find them on other unix systems?
Are they standardized in some ...
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TCP flows coexisting with UDP when using SFQ (stochastic fair queuing)
I am simulating a network where I limited and modified all the interfaces using TC (traffic control). My interfaces are of the form HTB --- SFQ (it is a little bit more complex but I will simplify ...
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CentOS: Prioritize UDP traffic based on UDP port number?
We have an two important applications on a CentOS box - one is Syslog, which is using UDP port 514. The other is bind (DNS), using UDP port 53.
Is there a tuning mechanism that can be used to give ...
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unbind port of crashed program
is there any way to unbind a port that was previously binded by a program that crashed at some time?
I don't like to reboot the development-machine every hour.
