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DNS resolution, Browser navigation, and cache

The DNS server of your ISP has your address in its cache, and so is returning the old address. It will keep on doing so, until the Time To Live (TTL) of your data will expire. DNS records are stored ...
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What is the difference between LAN port and WAN port in the routers with integrated switches?

You have the right idea.Internally these devices are VLAN switches with exposed ports a member of a single vlan + a single port computer to do routing between vlans and configured to look like a dumb ...
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What is the difference between LAN port and WAN port in the routers with integrated switches?

It entirely depends on the router hardware. I've seen router hardware where both the LAN ports and the WAN port are connected to the same switch, which is configured to add VLAN tags, and is ...
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Why have a LAN, why not just WANs everywhere

However, no reason is provided on why this distinction is made. I don't see why there needs to be a separation between LAN/MAN/WAN. Especially if LANs can use Wi-Fi (wireless LAN). I am unfamiliar ...
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LAN/WAN Combo Slot?

That’s not just a DSL modem. It’s a combination box that includes a home gateway router, VOIP terminal, LAN-side 4-5 port Ethernet switch, and DSL modem. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s also a Wi-Fi ...
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5 usable static IP addresses, can I have 5 computers each have their own WAN IP address when accessing Internet?

With 5 static IP addresses, could I have 5 computers each get their own WAN IP or will all the computers share 1 WAN IP address? You can have five machines that each have their own public IP address. ...
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Exclude external IP from OpenVPN in tomato router

As you have not answered my comments to say if it worked or not, I come with a bit more formated answer: I'm almost sure that Tomato is throwing that error because your OpenVPN client user is trying ...
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Router to Router connection

What you're looking to do would normally be accomplished using a switch or wireless access point rather than a router. However, many routers have an "access point" mode that may help achieve this. ...
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Network between 2 routers - is it LAN or MAN or WAN?

Two routers connected with a serial cable are just that - two routers connected with a serial cable. Until you tell us about the physical layout of your hypothetical network, we can't use terms like ...
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Network between 2 routers - is it LAN or MAN or WAN?

The teacher is correct. Cisco learning refers to serial card equipment as WAN cards. That doesn't mean you can't use it locally. But in production environments you would find them connected as wide ...
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DNS resolution, Browser navigation, and cache

As you noted, you are using your ISP's router, and it appears to be set to use only the ISP's DNS servers. Meanwhile, you've used the website to check Google's DNS servers. You could infact do this ...
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Sync huge file tree with rsyncd, and encryption

Your assumption that rsync over ssh (remote shell) will mean your local rsync gets to do all the work, is not correct. When using a command like rsync -a /localtree user@host:/remotetree/ to rsync to ...
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How to Share Laptop internet to router via ethernet port

You can do it following this answer: How to share PC Internet over Wireless Router on Windows? However there is another way. You can create a hotspot with your laptop. Here is a guide to Windows 7 ...
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Two Internet Connections - One LAN (Load Balancing?)

As Frank has mentioned above, you may need a dual-wan router. Load balancer is more common in corpnet. We will use two enterprise routers to build a router cluster. If we have 200 clients, 100 will ...
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Simulate Two Separate Networks on VMWare Player

The difference is in the NAT vs BRIDGE connection. NAT Network Address Translation .. basically hides ONE ip behind another, it "translates" the IP and port calls from the Natted Address, to be from ...
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How can I configure pfSense to allow traffic from LAN to WAN?

Okay, by default the first LAN connection should be able to ping from the LAN to WAN (Outbound rules) but the rest of the LAN interfaces do not have rules automatically created: You will need to add ...
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How Wifi devices can be accesses from out side

There are a few options available. uPNP Modern routers support uPNP and by default, this is turned on. Any program inside the network can request the router to forward traffic directed at a specific ...
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5 usable static IP addresses, can I have 5 computers each have their own WAN IP address when accessing Internet?

It would be EXTREMELY RARE to get "5 static IP addresses" - what you will most likely get is a /29 = a subnet of 8 IP addresses, however the first and last IP address of the range can't be used as ...
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Dual Wan - Failover not working

Solution was adding the ISP host and removing other options, my test was made disconnecting the fiber from the router, hope this works in a real word scenario:
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DD-WRT QoS not working on LAN/WLAN interface

You haven't set the mac addresses at the bottom of the page. Make sure your total uplink and downlink bandwidth are accurate. You want them about 10% lower than the actual amount you receive under a ...
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How does my PC decide whether I meant a LAN or WAN adress?

You cannot do this, because the 192.168 is a IP Range which is only meant for LAN addresses. It is the IP Range itself that makes us know we are inside a LAN, not a WAN. In order to contact your ...
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Which MAC address does my ISP need?

Normally a bridge is expected to be fully transparent at L2 (data link layer), so it will carry Ethernet frames unaltered – whenever your router sends a frame, the ISP will see your router's WAN ...
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Can a router receive WAN from a switch while also routing through the same switch?

Not unless both the switch and the router are more sophisticated than typical SoHo devices. Both the switch and the router would need to support VLANs and the router would need to support a single ...
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How to capture packets at the "DSL side"?

The type of product you're looking for is called a DSL protocol analyzer. Plug that term into your favorite search engine. There have been many flavors of DSL over the years, so it would probably help ...
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Sluggish smart-home wireless devices

You can connect it this way, but because its setup with the smart-home devices behind a NAT/Firewall, you would have to port-forward for each device. if for instance, they are the same model LED WiFi ...
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Cisco ISDN WAN - what exactly is it?

Your Ethernet ports are WAN ports if you configure the router correctly. An Apple Airport / Netgear WAN port is also a NAT port like FA0/0 or FA0/1 could be. The WIC cards found at at this Cisco ...
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How to use both wifi and cellular network on mobile phone at the same time?

iPhones do this automatically via “Wi-Fi Assist” and Multipath TCP (MPTCP). See the WWDC 2017 talk from Christoph Paasch for more information about how apps can make use of MPTCP in iOS 11 and beyond. ...
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My computer redirecting it's IP to another connected modem

This was completely explained in the answers to your other question. By connecting the two LAN ports together, you turned your network into one LAN. That LAN now has two DHCP servers, so it's ...
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How To Port Forward To Machine on the LAN?

I assume you have a http service (also known as a webserver) that runs inside your LAN and you want to show it on a public IP (which you call WAN IP). http runs by default on port 80. That is if you ...
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Can't browse but can ping

Bypass the router, connecting a computer directly to the cable modem. (Be aware that this exposes your computer to the public Internet, so an up-to-date OS and a working firewall are necessary. The ...
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