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Connect ethernet cable on two router ports can cause loop?

Yes, maybe, depends on whether the router ports are switched/bridged (like how almost every home router has all of the 'LAN' ports going to an integrated switch) or whether they're truly independent (...
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Circumventing T-Mobile Wireless Modem Restrictions

After more research it appears like the T-Mobile is not a true modem. Thus, T-Mobile will never be changing the current definition because it would expose their network.
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WAN on router's client device

I've done this before using a bluetooth USB adapter sharing an internet connection from a phone, getting the bluetooth connection working was by far the hardest part (luckily that's not part of this ...
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How to Block a Wifi-Router by MAC adress via terminal

The usual term you're looking for (MAC address of Wi-Fi access point) is "BSSID". If Linux Mint uses NetworkManager for Wi-Fi, as far as I know, NM currently has no option to block a ...
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Is my home network being attacked?

According to your post its says [UFW BLOCK] That should mean that the firewall blocked it. I usually get between 200 and 1000 and hour so your rate isn't very high. There are tons of people doing ...
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Is my home network being attacked?

The first two entries, though redacted, seem to me like multicast discovery packets sent by Syncthing. (Hoplimit of 1 is typical for such packets.) If you look closer at the IP addresses that were ...
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Ethernet connection won't reach wall sockets - ( Router -> Switch -> Laptops)

There is a finite number of reasons for what's happening here, you should double- or triple-check these to find the actual culprit. You are mistaken and the cables are not actually terminated using ...
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Set-up for home network

Is such a configuration possible? Yes, with a few of caveats. Caveat #1 - Some IOT devices use broadcast protocols - as such if you divide up your network you may have difficultly discovering IOT ...
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multiple wired wap from different vendor

You generally need your secondary AP (netgear) in bridge mode (or the vendor-equivalent name for the setting) to get it to forward DHCP requests from wifi clients out its lan ports. Bridge mode often* ...
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Port forwarding on a Jio router

As others have mentioned, the router's IPv4 is behind CGNAT in Jio Fiber so port forwarding won't work, but each client (device connected) has a static IPv6 address which you can check via ipconfig ...
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