From Wikipedia: A router is a device that forwards data packets across computer networks. Routers perform the data "traffic directing" functions on the Internet. A router is a microprocessor-controlled device that is connected to two or more data lines from different networks. When a data packet ...
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Configuring Traffic Control on TP-LINK router
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I'm trying to configure traffic control on my TP-LINK TD-W8960N modem router. From what I can see in the configuration screen I ...
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Port forwarding on D-link DIR-615 router
I'm attempting to configure my router to forward a port to my Linux machine. The Linux computer has a static IP (192.168.0.185) Right now I'm just experimenting to make sure I can forward a port, so ...
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How to monitor router traffic?
I have a Cisco DPC3825 DOCSIS 3.0 modem/router combo. I want to monitor the traffic that passes through my router such as bandwidth usage.
I have bandwidth meters like DuMeter on my PC to monitor ...
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Assigning IP addresses with multiple routers
I have a 3 router setup in my house, and I've managed to get everything to work properly, but I'm still not sure if I have set the IP addresses that the routers assign to the clients properly.
Right ...
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How to perform “Wake-on-Lan” from TP-WR741N (or similar) to LAN
I have a perfectly running TP-WR741ND router with its native firmware (probably not so important, but here it is: 3.12.4 Build 100910 Rel.57694n).
The router is connected directly to LAN PC's ...
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What is the best portable wireless router for high utilisation [closed]
Not suer if this the right forum. But I am attending a conference and will be demonstrating a product. To avoid the typical bad conference WiFi, we want to run our own wifi and server, so we'll need ...
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How to log all site domains accessed through a tomato router?
I would like to monitor all traffic in my home network, and I believe that there is not much disk space in my router to record all that pass through. I could be happy enough if I could log only the ...
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Can't access some websites, possible MTU issue on the router?
Two particular sites that I can't access at all is css-tricks.com and jquery.com which are pretty crucial to me since I'm a web designer.
I talked with my ISP and we tried
Using different ...
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cannot access home server from home network, but can access from internet
I've apache server at home,
I've router configured to asign static IP to that server.
I also have port forwarded correctly for apache and SSH.
Now weird thing happens: I can access server with my ...
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Why is my network utilization a sawtooth wave?
I've noticed that my broadband link always gives me a sawtooth shaped utilization graph when I'm downloading large files. It looks like this from Task Manager on Windows 7:
When I'm doing large ...
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Router configuration monitor. [closed]
Looking for a tool to manage/backup switch, router and other network device configurations. I have tried Kiwi Cat tools, Cisco Network Assistant. So far did not like either one of them. I am looking ...
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What's wrong with my router?
We recently bought a new router, a Sitecom 300N, to replace a broken one. It worked for about a week but now the internet pretty much gone, I can rarely get a page to load.
I can ping the router's IP ...
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Setting D-Link Modem in “Bridge mode”
I am trying to extend the wireless network in my house.
I have a cable modem attached to a D-Link DIR-635 wireless router. This works fine if I am in the part of the house near the router.
I have ...
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Sitecom router dropping Steam packets
From my ISP I got this Sitecom WL-582 wireless router (also known as the Wireless Router 300N X2 WL-341) for my home network. By itself, it works OK, but last week I noticed that I wasn't able to ...
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D-Link DIR 300 does not detect phone line
My D-Link DIR 300 apparently does not detect any phone line or data. My phone line gets cut off the moment I connect the line cable to it. Does this mean that it is broken or just needs a firmware or ...
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Network routing issue
Here is the situation.
I've turned server ns1 (a dual-homed linux box) into a router by enabling ip_forwarding on it (echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward)
Server ns1:
eth0: 10.10.0.200/24 ...
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create a private network with router
I would like to create a private network off of my works production network. I'm going to be testing some software on this network. And I can't have any traffic from the test boxes interfering with ...
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Do consumer routers with deep packet inspection for HTTP traffic exist? [closed]
I'm looking at my network's outbound HTTP traffic. My router, a Linksys WRT350N, provides only minimal traffic logging. The log isn't saved anywhere, and only the source and destination IP addresses ...
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General Network construction
Im looking for some guidance in creating a home network from someone with some time and patience. It would be much appreciated.
I currently have the following materials...
Server with OS windows ...
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Can a gigabit switch's performance degrade over time?
I have this Netgear 5-port gigabit switch. You know, one of those rounded white models. Well, it worked well in combination with a Netgear DSL router for a few years.
The network topology is ...
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Can a WRT54Gv8 running a linux based OS inject packets?
I have a WRT54Gv8, and I want to hook it up to my computer thru ethernet, install Linux, install aireplay, and try it out. But will packet injection work? I can't find a solid answer on the topic ...
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Unable to connect to computer name other than for file sharing
I have a computer on my network at home called "shuttle" running Win XP Pro. I can connect to this machine's file shares by visiting \\shuttle and it works fine.
However, the machine also has a web ...
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How do I access the Linksys E2000 wireless router setup page
I'm trying to access & configure my wireless router's options.
The wireless router is a Linksys E2000 and the default gateway's IP address is 192.168.33.1
I've gotten into the router setup by ...
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Port forwarding with a Netgear modem/router and another router
I'm trying to clear port 25565 for a minecraft server I want to set up, but I'm not having any luck with any solutions I've found as of yet. I have a phone line connected to a modem/router which is ...
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Will my TV block my wireless router signal?
I have a flat screen LED TV on a shelf, and I'd like to put my wireless router behind it to save space, and to hide the router for a clean look. Will the TV's field interfere with the wireless signal?
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Anyone know how to enable UDP on an Airport Express / Time capsule router?
Currently I can't video chat using UDP. This diagnostic page shows that:
http://cc.rtmfp.net/
I get a N,N,Y,N,N,Y,Y,Y
How can I enable my Airport Express router to allow UDP?
Thanks
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Troubleshooting Desktop That Can't Connect to Internet through Any Adapater, Even on Different OSes
I have a Windows 7 machine that also has Ubuntu on it. Yesterday the NIC spontaneously crapped out. I went and got a Dynex PCI NIC and set it up, my computer now finds networks but lists them as ...
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How to wirelessly connect TP-LINK TL-WR841N with a THOMSON router from the ISP?
How can I wirelessly connect a TP-LINK TL-WR841N with a THOMSON router from my ISP? The THOMSON is connected to Internet and I want to connect to it TP-LINK.
I tried do that using WDS and I managed, ...
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Windows 7 handles communication with router differently than Windows XP and Ubuntu?
I have a small network with three computers running windows XP, one running Windows 7 and another one dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10. All are connected to a router, which is connected to a ...
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How can I add a wireless router to a wired router?
The Setup:
wired D-link (EBR-2310) router connected to my cable modem.
Wireless NetGear N300 (WNR2000v3) router connected to a LAN port on the wired router.
What I'm trying to do:
I'm trying to ...
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Would this be an appropriate situation to use a repeater?
I just moved to a new house in an older neighborhood with lots of brick walls. After getting internet installed yesterday and setting up my router, I walked around the house testing the signal with my ...
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Zyxel router custom DNS names or storing configuration to survive reboots
On my Zyxel P-870HN-51b - although I reckon the same solution may then also apply to other router models - I would like to add custom host and domain names local to my network. I.e. I don't want to ...
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I use a wifi network that is connected to my modem. How do I find out the address of the wifi router?
192.168.1.1 goes to my (Beetel) modem.
I'm unable to figure out how to access my router when I'm on wifi. Only if I disconnect the router from the modem, and then connect my laptop to the router via ...
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Can every wireless broadband router be used as an access point?
I'm planning to temporarily purchase a cheap access point, but I found out that broadband wireless routers actually cost less than access points.
I configured a broadband router as an access point ...
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Network deployment diagram scenario
Here is the scenario, I currently have 2 applications and its individual data storages. I have 2 networking switch and 1 router.
Design A: Application A + 1 data storage is connected to 1 ...
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How to request information from a router?
On a device connected to a router (ie - a PC), is it possible for that device to request information from that router? Ideally, I would want to detect my router's make and model by making some kind ...
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DDWRT serving additional DNS servers instead of just the router's IP
I have a DD-WRT router set up with DNSMasq to resolve certain domains to internal addresses and pass everything else thru. The router itself is configured to use Google's public DNS servers to resolve ...
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Sharing a common internet on 2 PC
I am using a cable broadband from my provider which gives me a single connection with a RJ45 plug. This is inserted to my desktop and Internet is working fine. But few days ago I purchased a laptop ...
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synchronous and statistical time division multiplexing
Wiki Definitions:
Statistical multiplexing is a type of communication link sharing, very similar to dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA). In statistical multiplexing, a communication channel is divided ...
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Can't open port on Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H attached to a SpeedTouch modem
I have a Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H router that is attached to a internet modem speedtouch.
The speedtouch have a DMZ for the router, so is the router in charge of the ports.
This is the info page:
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run scrpts on routers with BusyBox
I own a router (tp link w8960n) that I can "control" via telnet and busybox.
Is it possible to create and run a script on the router like a permanent process(more like a cronojob) if the router has ...
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How do you resolve a supply voltage high warning on an optical SFP in a router?
Here is the error showing in my log file on an Alcatel router:
5629 2012/01/15 02:41:24.81 EST MINOR: PORT #2030 Base Port 1/2/8
"XFP/SFP DDM (supplyVoltage-high-warning) raised"
When I issue the ...
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How to find out if router supports power over Ethernet (poe)
I have the Asus RT-N56U router. How do I find out if the router supports POE? A Google search for "asus rt-n56u power over ethernet" did not produce any meaningful results: http://goo.gl/qqNFm
Also ...
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Function of Routers as LAN?
Here's a quote from TCP/IP First Step - Book
Router's role is to figure out what to do with IP packets that it
receives. One thing routers can't generally do is function as a LAN.
They can ...
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Connect to router at home without password
Here is my situation:
I just installed Windows 7 in a new partition, and have Windows Vista installed in the old partition. We have a router at home that belongs to my roommate, who is on a trip and ...
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Internet alterantives to broadband [closed]
I am living in London zone 1, Earls Court. Due to some issues in the street, there is no Internet cable here and there is not going to be one for at least 3 next months.
I desperately need ...
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Setup second static IP to server behind Netgear router?
I have a WNR3500L Netgear router. Our ISP is Surewest, and they have provided us 5 static IP addresses (66.x.x.106/110). I have setup the router to use 66.x.x.106 as a static IP, and have setup the ...
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Mapping to Static IPs through a Netopia Cayman from behind a firewall?
Our business has, until recently, used dynamic IPs through our ISP (AT&T) for our office network. Recently we have adopted an external network application which requires the use of a handful of ...
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Wireless router configured as AP using dd-wrt drops packets
I am using a new D-Link DIR-825 flashed with dd-wrt v24preSP2 build 18024.
The router is set up as an Access Point (AP) simply extending the network. We have used this guide to set it up.
The router ...
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Why can't routers use MAC addresses instead of private/local IP addresses?
I understand that public IP addresses are necessary because if the world only had MAC to move data between one host and another, the entire Internet would have to be one massive flat network such that ...
