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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Cannot access LAN with WAN address from within my LAN [duplicate]
Ok my title is a little bit convoluted. Allow me to explain.
I have a server in my LAN that listens for HTTP connections at let's say 192.168.1.10:1234. I can access this address from my other ...
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Changing routing on Mac with two Ethernet ports
I have a Mac tower which has two Ethernet ports. One is connected to our corporate network, the other to a non-corporate network. Priority order states that the non-corporate network comes first and ...
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Editing the hosts file
I'm looking to edit the Windows TCP/IP hosts file (at c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts). I'm wondering, what is the best way to do this (on Windows XP)?
Let's say that I want to redirect, say, ...
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Can virtual machines infect their host? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Virtual Machine and Virus
I've always been curious because I've run a virtual machine a few times.
Can a VM infect the host with a shared drive between the two?
Can a VM ...
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Stop Windows 7 from clobbering one VPN when connecting to a second?
I currently connect to my network drives at work using a VPN.
I run Windows 7, updated weekly-ish.
(Updates often interrupt me, so I don't have them automatic anymore.
I don't suspect this is related, ...
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Host and guest suddenly cannot communicate in bridged mode after working fine before
Up until a few hours ago, my VirtualBox setup worked perfectly, Windows 10 Host, Ubuntu 15.04 Server and Linux Mint 17.2 guests. Both guests set to bridged networking mode and every device on my home ...
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Routing between two
I have the following network setup:
From Laptop I can ping any IP in the 192.168.2.0/24 network and I have internet access. On Tower PC I can ping any IP in the 192.168.2.0/24 network (including 192....
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Ping faster than light
I just discovered very strange thing while testing my internet connection.
My ping is smaller than it should be. For example ping time to Arizona State University is about 14ms.
eryk@eryk-pc:~$ ping ...
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Connect to the host machine from a VirtualBox guest OS?
I'd essentially like to access my host computer from the guest in VirtualBox. Is there an IP address given for my host which I can use from the guest? Are there extra steps required to set this up? I'...
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How can I change the default website connection timeout in Chrome?
I want to change the default timeout in Chrome. In Firefox I can set the value of network.http.connection-timeout in about:config - but how can I do that in Chrome?
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Do web browsers use different outgoing ports for different tabs?
In a web browser that supports having multiple tabs, such as Firefox, do different tabs that go to different website domains use a dedicated port for each domain?.
Or does the browser use a single ...
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What is Windows command to convert machine name to ip address and vice versa?
I need to know the ip address of another machine in a lan network.
What is the Windows command for getting ip address from machine name and vice versa?
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Pinging a machine on my local network gets an 'unreachable' response from my own IP address?
Edit for future readers who get here from google:
This question is now the top google result when searching for 'destination host unreachable from my own ip address'. If that's how you got here, then ...
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Windows command to display all IP addresses
I know there is a single line of a command and its arguments that can help display all computer IP addresses (those that are being used) on a LAN, and my computer is also a client, as one of those ...
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Why is Chrome ignoring /etc/hosts on OS X?
I'm using OS X 10.8.5 and Chrome 30.
I added 127.0.0.1 youtube.com to my /etc/hosts file such that it now contains this:
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback ...
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SSH Reverse socks tunnel
ssh -D can make a socks port at local machine, which pass the traffic to the remote, then to other places.
ssh -L port:host:hostport, listen port at local machine, pass the traffic to "host:hostport" ...
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Many excludedportranges how to delete - hyper-v is disabled
Since the Windows update 2004 I am fighting with many programs and tools that can't bind to certain ports. A bit research I stumbled across:
netsh interface ipv4 show excludedportrange protocol=tcp
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Why can't Chrome load a web page? ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED
Chrome gives this error, yet I can ping the server!
The server at www.odesk.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup
failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to
its ...
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Samba+Windows: Allow multiple connections by different users?
I have a machine running Ubuntu with Samba that I use to share stuff with my family's Windows machines in our local network. Currently they access a share for movies/music/etc with one user.
I want ...
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Hyper-V External network switch kills my host's network performance
I have Windows 10 fully updated. I do the following:
Testing internet speed - 70 Mbps up / 70 Mpbs down
Hyper-V Manager
Virtual Switch Manager
Create Virtual Switch - External
Testing internet speed -...
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How can I connect to a web server running in a VM when the VM is in NAT mode?
I've got a development webserver on an Ubuntu box inside of VMWare Workstation 7.1.3. I'd like to run a web browser on a Windows machine (the host OS) for actually testing a web page I'm working on -- ...
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how does 'ping' command really work?
How does the ping command really work? Specifically where does the ARP (Address Resolution Protocol) come into picture?
I was asked this question in an interview and I was not able to come up with ...
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How to share CPU or RAM?
In networking we share File(Disk Driver) or Databases.
But how can we share CPU or RAM over the network.
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How to get rid of auto-generated sequence number in network's device name in Windows?
Every time one plugs in the same usb wireless adapter in a new usb port, Windows creates new network device with auto-generated sequence number which looks like this
Wireless-N USB Network Adapter #2, ...
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Directly connect MacBook to Linux desktop via ethernet for fast SSH?
I am looking at building a Linux desktop—desktop only; no monitor support—and getting a MacBook Pro as my main computer for mobility. I would like—while I am at the office—to basically use my MacBook ...
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Interpreting the 'metric' column in routing table
I'm a little confused about the output I'm seeing in my routing table, particularly the 'metric' column:
$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags ...
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Combining two ethernet ports
My computer has two gigabit ethernet ports on the motherboard. Is it possible to have the OS (Win XP) combine them and treat as a single 2-gigabit connection? Failing that, is there any general ...
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Can I route programs to two internet connections simultaneously in Windows 7? [duplicate]
I have two internet connections - one via a 3G modem, and the other via wireless. The modem is faster so I normally browse with it, but it does not support torrent downloads while my wireless does. ...
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Multiple network connections on Windows 7
I'm using Windows 7 and I have 2 networks:
one wireless with internet connection
one wired with no internet connection
The computer is connected to both. The problem is that although in Network and ...
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Why does Windows 8 open Bing.com by itself?
My Windows 8 Laptop will open Bing in IE by itself. It makes a request to:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=219472&clcid=0x409
which then directs to
http://www.bing.com
Changed ...
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I need to make Windows 7 STOP disabling the wifi adapter when the wired LAN is connected
This is a Dell Latitude E6430. There is a setting in the bios to control this behavior and I have DISABLED it but it still happens. I am also running the latest bios.
When I plug in a network cable ...
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Multiple access points / Switching issues
I've got 2 wifi access points at both ends of my flat. So I got wifi in the whole flat. One of those access points is a router (TP-Link WR1043 v2) while the other one is just an access point (TP-Link ...
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How to enable administrative shares on Vista and XP?
I am looking for a way to enable administrative shares on both XP and on Vista. I am a complete newbie when it comes to using administrative shares. I have no prior experience as to how this is ...
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Is 225.225.225.128 a valid subnet mask?
I have been told that we have two devices on a network:
10.40.225.142 and 10.40.225.144
These devices both have
Gateway 10.40.225.129
Subnet mask 225.225.225.128 (note 225 is Not a typo)
These ...
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Limiting network connections to specific sites when travelling / tethered (in windows)
I often find myself accessing the Internet while travelling via either (gasp) dial-up or via a very limited data plan on a cell phone. I'd like to make sure that my laptop does not use the network ...
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How can I bridge a Verizon mobile hotspot modem/router to a Linksys router?
I recently purchased a Verizon mobile hotspot (MiFi 4510L) and was wondering if I could configure my Linksys wireless/wired router (similar, but not the exact model: Linksys router) to use the MiFi as ...
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Connecting a ADSL router to a wireless router. What am I doing wrong?
What is the correct way to do it? This are the steps I have taken:
Disable DHCP in Wireless router
Setup a fixed IP (192.168.1.2) and telling that the default Gateway is 192.168.1.1 (the ADSL router)
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Convert a router to a switch?
I have a couple of modem/routers that came with ISP services that are no longer being used. At the moment I have the current ISP's router running the wireless network and a wired portion to a couple ...
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Network problems using WSL2
Currently I'm using Windows10 and WSL2 with Ubuntu 20.04 for developing. For the most case this works excellent, apart from one problem. There seems to be something broken in the networking layer ...
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With Windows 7, why is an entry in the hosts file not working?
I updated some entries in the hosts file at C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc. As a test, I decided to make Google point to 127.0.0.1.
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on ...
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How can I force Windows 7 to use specific network adapters per program?
I am using Hamachi VPN. I want to setup Windows 7 to use the Hamachi VPN network adapter for specific software on my system; other softwares should use the regular network adapters.
Is this possible ...
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How to share Internet Connection in Ubuntu
I have a laptop1 which has its two interfaces ( wired and wireless ) working. And have another laptop (laptop2) for which only wired interface works.
I am planning to connect the two wired ...
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How can I get my home machines to connect to each other via hostname?
I've got a standard Linksys router and a few laptops - mix of Windows Vista and Mac OS X. Shouldn't my router act as a DNS server to resolve hostnames for the machines within my local network? If not, ...
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Securing my Microsoft Remote Desktop connection over the Internet?
On my home Windows 10 machine, I have port forwarded Microsoft's RDP port (3389) via my router to port (20202). Thus, I can remotely access the Windows 10 machine via the Microsoft Remote Desktop ...
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Bizarre and very specific Internet connection loss
Yesterday (Friday, September 21, 2012), my Internet connection started acting up. After some testing, I confirmed a very specific and baffling set of symptoms:
Internet connection goes away every 25-...
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Vista pc hidden from XP?
I have a Vista-based media center, and two XP-based desktop computers, all on a simple home WLAN network (DSL/WLAN router). The Vista computer can see all other computers and transfer/modify files ...
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Capture data that my ADSL modem send
I'd like to capture the data sent by my ADSL modem (what's really sent on the RJ11 cable).
I have no access to my modem (no ssh), so I'd like to build a mini-computer with 2 RJ11 plug, one connected ...
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How to run a web server on my PC without static ip
I have two related questions:
1- When I see my global IP address in a website like https://whatismyipaddress.com/, which is for example X.X.X.X, I think this is not only mine, and a lot of people who ...
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machine wakes only on local magic packet
I've got a Debian server, which I would like to wake up remotely using a tool like wakeonlan.
I have assigned the server a static internal IP 192.168.0.14 and set up the appropriate port forwarding ...
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Does the length of cat6 cable make a difference in a home network?
I have a Dlink DIR-655 router for my wired and wireless router for my home network. I have a 100ft cat6 ethernet cable. I pulled it from the router to my home server in my basement.
Does the 100ft ...