Questions tagged [networking]
For questions on connecting devices together so that they can communicate with each other, as well as questions on networking equipment such as routers and switches.
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Gateway bridged mode
n00b question: I have a gateway from my ISP that lacks features and in order to access any advanced features whatsoever you must login to their site where settings are stored on their backend which ...
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Make mobile hotspot's wifi appear as mobile data in windows 10
A windows application starts downloading large files when connected to wifi irrespective of what user choose. When connected to mobile data, the application downloads only when user select/allow.
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Connect computers from different networks
Here is my situation:
There is normal network with a router at 192.168.0.1 that connects to internet. I would like to create another network (that doesn't need internet) with AP (currently TL-WA801N ...
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How can document bad internet performance frequency over certain time period?
Recently, due to bad quality of internet in my new flat, I tried to figure out to document internet-drops logs over a certain period of time (not asking about when a connection is made or lost, but ...
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Configure 2 LANs with different classes or force AP to assign IP to his connected devices
Sorry for the title.
Current scenario:
Internet > Fritz!Box 7530 192.168.1.x > AP TpLink TL-WA801N with IP 192.168.1.2 > so many devices
Fritz has DHCP enabled, from 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1....
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Network Render Fails when CPU is Pinned
I have a Windows 10 computer (call it machine A) who is sharing a solid state drive over a local network (wired, with 1Gbps ethernet and switches). I have other machines on the network who are reading ...
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T568 wires swapped Pin #3 and #6?
Whilst putting on Keystones on our home which is pre-wired with Cat-7 cables I am a bit confused. From what I can tell from looking at how the wall plugs are connected it looks like all wires are ...
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Forward Port to localhost of host from VMWare VM
I have a server running at localhost:8081 on the host machine.
From a VM, I would like to be able to visit http://localhost:8081 from a browser running inside of my VM and have that request forwarded ...
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Home network 2 subnets
Network noob here. This is my current home network situation:
So I have two ISPs, one VDSL the other over TV cable. Each one has a router with WiFi and an ethernet switch attached to it. Several ...
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Advanced IP Scanner - inactive hosts
I use Advanced IP Scanner.
When I scan my network at my office, then I see only 3 active hosts (my computer, my router, and my coworker computer).
I also see 10 inactive hosts.
I thought that inactive ...
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WIFI SSID is not visible in available connections
Well, this was working fine before I went up North and accidently clicked on the forget network option. When I got home, I placed the laptop next to router and the SSID is not broadcasting. I see my ...
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How many internet protocols are there (related to domain/URL)?
I need to know what are the protocols that are currently used (that can be related to domains or URLs and can be resolved by a DNS). Example:
www.domain.com
ftp.domain.com
ftps.domain.com
ftpes.domain....
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Why should I use a private subnets to my EC2 instances
I'm taking a course in AWS development. And I'm represented with the following standard diagram:
Where both the data and the EC2 instances are on private subnets. But I don't understand why I should ...
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Difficulty setting up a private BIND DNS server for an office network
I'm setting up an internal website for a small company. I also set up a private DNS server inside the office network that resolves the hostname of said internal website. I then changed the router's ...
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Why would DHCP fail so often on a domestic network?
Recently I've noticed that one of my domestic devices (smartphone, laptop, pc) may lose its connection to the internet while other devices are still connected. It happens every day now. After a search ...
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How to use IPv6 internet addresses on Linux with systemd-networkd
I have a problem with my providers internet router using IPv6 addresses and I realized that I do not really understand how to use IPv6 addresses. To get an idea I like to ask how to use the different ...
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DNS resolution works most of the time but randomly fails. Usually on Google Chrome. Seems to be specific to computers at my house
I recently built a website and attached it to a domain name. I bought the domain name from Google domains and added an A record pointing the domain to the IP address of the server I'm running it on. ...
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"Network cable unplugged" after reboot of windows computer
I have a weird behavior with my windows machine:
I recently upgraded to a new computer (namely new mainboard and cpu). In general everything is working fine but sometimes after a reboot, The computer ...
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What is the purpose of the web site of the router's back panel?
On the back of my router-box there is a domain-name of a web-site. This domain-name/web-site is the one of the vendor of my router.
There are also a credentials - user-name and password - to enter/log-...
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Sysmon itself I am trying to establish connections to the internet
I've installed Sysmon latest version on multiple servers and as I add sysmon-modular config to the sysmon, sysmon process tries to establish connections to the internet which is odd. Some of these IPs ...
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Access local web server using another public server
I have few web server running behind the NAT((accessible using local IP)), and I need to access the web server from public network. I cannot use port forwarding. Also I have a main central server ...
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Cannot Connect to FTP Server in Whonix
I'm trying to connect to an FTP server using Filezilla from within Whonix (Windows 10 host OS), but I'm getting the following error after successfully logging in:
Status: Retrieving directory listing.....
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Set user friendly IP addresses for computers on my home network?
I have a few machines on my home network that I ssh into. Windows, Mac, and Linux.
instead of ssh [email protected] every time I want to login to one of them it would be nice to set the IP as something ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTE Remote Desktop
I have been struggling with this for about two days now so I figured it’s times to ask you all for some help.
I’ve read a ton of different suggestions on how to enable Remote Desktop over Ubuntu but ...
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IPtables help forwarding port through WireGuard connection
I have a home server behind a carrier-NAT so I cannot forward any ports to it. I have PLEX running (in a docker container) on the server and would like to access it from outside my home network. ...
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Slow local network (device in the same room) speed when connected to vpn
I have a mapped drive on my local network. When I copy files from or to it without a VPN connection, I have a speed 4-5 times greater than when I'm connected to VPN.
Obviously, something is wrong, ...
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What is the difference between managed mode and promiscuous mode?
I have heard these two terms but I do not know the difference between them. Are they the same?
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Prompt user to add IP ranges using batch file
I have tried
netsh interface ipv4 set address name="Ethernet 3" address=192.168.230.254 mask=255.255.255.0 gate=192.168.230.1
netsh interface ip set dnsservers "Ethernet 3" ...
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Router requiring reboot - 3 different models
So I have some internet issues that have been happening for a while now (1-2 years) with 3 different router models (PPOE connected through ZTE GPON ONT).
What happens:
After a while (might be a few ...
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Can you suffer bufferbloat when using only 1/4th of your bandwidth?
As the title suggests, is it possible to have bufferbloat without hitting your max download or upload speeds (on Ethernet)? I have recently moved into a new house and asked for the internet to be ...
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Broken webapp: need to disable ipv6 (i.e. use ipv4 only) for a specific host
I'm need to use a specific webapp developed by a small company. The webapp uses IP whitelisting. However, there's a problem with that feature: ipv6 is not working. They don't know how to fix it and ...
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Server connections refused when hostname used, works fine with IP
Hope someone can help. I've run a local server for a while on a Rapberry Pi 3b (Raspbian Buster) that includes a PBX server, DNSmasq and local webserver.
I recently upgraded to a Pi4 and performed a ...
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Windows 10 sends wrong user to SMB share
I've got a small private network at home with several Windows 10 PCs / Laptops and a small Qnap Nas which provides a SMB access.
It worked fine so far but for two days then one of the clients can't ...
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LAN connection not behaving, tried every trick i know
I built a new pc yesterday, installed all firmware ad driver updates (ALL of them) and ran every windows update i had to.
This is my situation:
Online Speedtest shows download speeds below 1Mbps
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How to configure my router to redirect clients to use a specific IP address as DNS?
I have setup a local server in my LAN to host a AdGuardHome DNS server that filters Ads etc (a bit like PieHole if you want) on a fixed, e.g. IP 192.168.1.88
If I configure that DNS server to be used ...
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How to access devices connected to router if my computer is connected to a switch with my router
I really don't know what to search for this problem (anything I search gives me 'How to connect to internet articles).
Here is a 'diagram' of my network:
I want to print and scan from the printer ...
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Why cant i access a certain website from my PC but can do it from my Phone?
so, i cant access my university's website in any browser on my computer (home) (edge, chrome, brave), i get the same error on all of them (ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE), i tried changing my DNS, incognito mode, ...
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Are local IP addresses on home routers always IPv4?
What the title says.
I want to know whether I can assume all internal IP addresses supplied by a regular home router will be IPv4 or might they be IPv6 as well?
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IPv6 consistently slower on my network
This is more of a theoretical question than a practical one, but my ISP gives me a dynamic IPv4 address and a /56 IPv6 prefix. When running bandwidth checking tools, I see that I consistently get a 2-...
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How to copy faster between PC and Server
My home network consists of a WiFi router to which multiple wireless devices connect and to which my PC and server are wired over Gigabit Ethernet. Copy speeds between the PC and server are between 80 ...
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After installing dnsmasq resolv.conf changes to 127.0.0.1
In Ubuntu 16.04, after installing dnsmasq service it changes /etc/resolv.conf nameserver to 127.0.0.1.
Where does this IP come from? Where to change it? I know that this file is linked to another and ...
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Making a machine that's using a different network adapter internet reachable
So I know that if I use a bridged adapter with a VM, then my router will treat it as a physical machine, assign it an IP and I could use port forwarding on my router to make the VM reachable through ...
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Share Windows connection through ethernet
I have a Windows 10 desktop computer connected to internet using a WiFi card. And then I have my laptop on which I'd like to play games remotely from the computer (using for example the steam remote ...
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Is it possible to use different wifi IP on apps? [duplicate]
Basically, my question is, can you change the wifi IP on different sessions. Like you have a different wifi IP on YouTube and Facebook.
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Is there a way to redirect a domain (maybe even a url) from firefox to chrome and vice versa?
I've noticed that google apps are a bit faster in chrome. So what I'd like to do is open both Firefox and Chrome--on the same computer--and use Chrome to do the Google stuff and Firefox to do most ...
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I have 3 PCs on the same WiFi. Why are 2 of their local IPs "192.168.1.x" but the 3rd PC is "192.168.56.x"?
The third PC which has that 192.168.56.x local IP is ALSO conveniently the only PC that I can't get to connect to my iPhone.
What is going on here? Is this meaningful in any way, that one PC has a ...
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What do AX1800, AX3000, etc. mean within Wifi 6 (802.11ax)?
I'm looking at 802.11ax (aka WiFi 6) routers for home consumers.
As of the time of this writing, I see terms like AX1800, AX3000, AX5300, AX10600, etc. associated with the product description of each ...
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Routing network traffic thru a Windows machine is very slow
I have two Windows 10 Pro for Workstations machines connected via Thunderbolt Ethernet and would like to utilize the fast 10GbE connection to NAS server via PC_A to improve transfer rates for PC_B ...
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Connecting from Domain PC to non-domain PC
I have a PC (windows 10) on my home network (non-domain), named Heathen.
I also have my work computer (Windows 10) on a domain network (via VPN), named Thomas. This is also connected on my home ...
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VPN for some traffic and non-VPN for other traffic
I use my work laptop only with WiFi, and when at home, I can use it to connect to my home network, which I do to play movies from my server in the basement, and I can RDP to that server.
However, when ...
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