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A communication end-point for networking, for CPUs please use [processor-socket]

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Manually closing a port from commandline

I want to close an open port which is in listening mode between my client and server application. Is there any manual command line option in Linux to close a port? NOTE: I came to know that "only ...
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What is this socket/port/connector on my laptop? [duplicate]

I've have this socket on my laptop (Lenovo Z570). What is this port and what is it used for? And what does that symbol mean (I expected a LOCK symbol)?
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Allow non-root process to bind to port 80 and 443?

Is it possible to tune a kernel parameter to allow a userland program to bind to port 80 and 443? The reason I ask is I think its foolish to allow a privileged process to open a socket and listen. ...
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Data retransmission and WSAECONNABORTED (10053) socket error

Say I have two sockets that are connected to each other (Socket A and Socket B). If the computer that have Socket B is unplugged from power, then if Socket A tries to send some data to Socket B, the ...
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Can I monitor a local unix domain socket like tcpdump?

I'd like to monitor responses on a unix socket without disturbing the original connections and pipe them to a script for processing. I know how to do this with tcpdump for tcp connections but I ...
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Difference between localhost and the ip address

If bind a socket in Python to localhost,8200 this is accessible via http://localhost:8200/. but not http://x.x.x.x:8200/ If bind a socket in Python to x.x.x.x,8200, machinename,8200 this is ...
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Determining what process has bound a port (without listening) on Windows

If I want to find out what process is listening on what socket, I can use netstat/TCPview and will immediately see it. However, it is possible to bind to an address without listening. If this is done, ...
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Connect a M.2 (B & M) key SSD into a B socket

I have bought a SSD with M.2 socket (B & M) key, but my computer just have a B key socket. My question is if I can connect the SSD in this B socket, and would it work correctly?
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Is sharing a tmux sockets between hosts possible?

I'm wondering if it's possible to share a tmux server socket between different hosts. For example, I have a virtual machine (guest) running inside my host, and I'm running a tmux session in the guest, ...
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What happens when I terminate a process and the socket send buffer is not empty?

In Windows (and probably in other operating systems), if a process has a TCP connection with another process on another machine, and then I terminate the process, an RST packet will be sent to the ...
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What do Intel's socket package specifications mean in detail?

What is the difference between FCPGA988 PGA988 rPGA rPGA988B BGA1224 FCBGA1224 Do some mean that the BGA is soldered to the board and cannot be removed? BGA is soldered versions only, right? What ...
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How can I know what is preventing my socket to bind to localhost:50060-50959

I am using this Python code to listen to a port on my Windows 10 system: import socket for port in (50059, 50060, 50959, 50960): try: print(socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)....
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Access machine in a subnetwork after a router

Is it possible to access a machine in a sub network? This is the situation: Main-router + sub-router - machine (2) - machine - machine - ... - machine (1) - machine - machine - ... ...
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How to communicate between two VirtualBox VMs running on same host

I am running two VM instances of RHEL/CentOS on my VirtualBox instance running on host Windows 7. The problem is when I am executing VBoxManage list vms -l | more and then sunsequently VBoxManage ...
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CPU and motherboard compatibility

I used CPU-Z to identify my socket and it said 479 mPGA. Also got chipset information and used intel site to check out compatible processors. Turns out a lot of processors were compatible with the ...
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OS X: how to figure out what prevents L2TP/IPSec from running correctly

It seems that an old installation of Cisco Anyconnect prevents the OS X built-in L2TP/IPSec client from running (I posted a question here: OS X 10.7, can't log into any L2TP VPN server, but didn't ...
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Running Process Monitor causes application to work

This is a longshot, but perhaps someone with knowledge of the internal workings of Sysinternal's Process Monitor may have an idea. Recently we've had a very murky problem at work. We have a software (...
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Is it possible to upgrade the AMD E-300 APU on a laptop?

I read that this processor is BGA. That would mean that it is soldered to the motherboard? Can an average laptop technician replace it? This processor is very slow, it scores only 600 on the Passmark ...
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