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broadcast network connection on ubuntu through virtualbox

I'm developing a website using ubuntu as a host web-server through virtualbox. when I first set this up, I was broadcasting the ip address so that on my tablet, I could navigate to the ip address of ...
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255.255.255.255 broadcast address meaning

Lets suppose we have a computer with three NICs: NIC_1: 172.16.1.1/24 NIC_2: 192.168.1.1/24 NIC_3: 103.55.34.32/24 We send a packet with the destination IP address being 255.255.255.255. 1) if ...
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psad, alarm for host scanning broadcast address

I've set up psad 2.1.5-3 in Ubuntu 10.10. I keep receiving emails like this =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Wed Oct 19 17:26:57 2011 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Danger level: [4] (out of 5) Scanned ...
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How may one configure Windows Firewall to block outbound multicast and broadcast traffic?

Blocking outbound connections by default and disabling all outbound rules does not prevent all traffic from being sent on the network interfaces. Some broadcast traffic is of course necessary for ...
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Network bridge and broadcast ethernet frames

Let R1 and R2 be two (wireless) routers. Both R1 and R2 have one wired interface eth0 and one wireless interface wlan0. On each router, both interfaces are bridged on br0. So: R1.br0 = R1.eth0 + ...
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How to configure a network router to forward (rebroadcast) wcf discovery

I can't perform wcf discovery through a network router. I have a client and server app. When deploying these two apps to any two computers on the same lan it works perfectly. The client app finds ...
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Live Stream to iPhone [closed]

I have a simple setup: Server with Intel Duel Core Xeon with 8 GB of RAM Fitted with a Ospray 440 hardware. Have a software for capturing, encoding and streaming live TV. (probably VLC Player or ...
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Using SLP (service location protocol) in an environment without multicast (OpenSLP)

Is it possible to use SLP (service location protocol) in an environment which does not support multicasts but just broadcasts? From what I've read it should be possible, but I can't get it to work. ...
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Limiting broadcast traffic illogically. What are the downsides?

We've been thinking through re-arranging the end-user network and VLAN configuration. We're currently doing things in a way that isn't quite typical, but given that it is working, we're hesitant to ...
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Forward broadcast to fixed IP using IPTables

I need to forward (route) broadcast packets from several wireless clients to a single server in the fixed network. The wireless and fixed network are not bridged for security reasons. With the ...
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Broadcast storm [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How managed switches handle Broadcast Multicast and Unicast? An application published broadcast message to a network, and caused network switch to drop packet. I have ...
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How managed switches handle Broadcast Multicast and Unicast?

Under typical scenarios, a network switch needs to handle broadcast, multicast and unicast messages at the same time. I'd like to understand On a typical managed switch (1Gb Ethernet/10Gb Ethernet), ...
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Stop unwanted network traffic on second nic

I work for a company who make a networking product. The device we create is attached to the testing PC via a second NIC and is on a seperate subnet to the primary nic on the corporate lan. We are ...
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one particular laptop does not receive UDP broadcast messages

I am trying to debug a problem with a particular laptop which is running Ubuntu. We have a service which uses broadcast UDP messages, and this laptop is not receiving them on its wireless interface, ...
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Passing Wake On LAN traffic across subnets with Dell PowerConnect 62xx

I am working on an SCCM project that requires powering on computers in the middle of the night to run updates. SCCM can send the WoL packets, but I am struggling to figure out how to pass this across ...
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Need confirmation on layer 2 security question

I need confirmation on a question regarding layer 2 security. I've been doing research and I just need to know that I understand it correctly. Basically, if you have a LAN with a few machines ...
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How can I “kill” a computer network services on my lan?

I'm in a strange situation... A customer has a huge network based on static ip. All machine names are not useful to identify a computer location and network switches are not managed. One of the ...
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what should be the destination MAC address for a limited broadcast address(255.255.255.255)

configuration: host(H1-10.10.10.55/24) has a default gateway(g1) 10.10.10.1/24. Question 1:H1 sends a packet to 255.255.255.255. What should be the destination MAC address in the outgoing frame? ...
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How to route broadcast packets from machine with two network interfaces on same subnet

I run RHEL 5 and have two NICs on one machine connected to the same subnet: eth0 192.168.100.10 eth1 192.168.100.11 My application needs to receive and transmit UDP packets (both unicast ...
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Why can't IPv6 send broadcasts?

IPv4 can broadcast. Why can't IPv6 do that?
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Rebroadcasting videostream from IP-camera

The problem is the following: I have a camera D-Link securicam dcs-2121 (http://www.dlink.com.sg/products/?idproduct=310) it has its own web-server and works perfectly with a few connected users, but ...
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Iptables - Allowing only a single dhcp (relay) client

I am trying to create a firewall rule on an Ubuntu 10.04 server running isc-dhcpd. I only want dhcp to be accessible by a single relay host (172.1.1.1). I have iptables set up like so: # iptables ...
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Microsoft Networking - WINS, DHCP, considerations for moving from a flat to routed network

We are moving our network from a flat 192.168.x.x/16 to a routed network to be composed of several /24 subnets and a layer 3 switch. It is a Windows network, active directory integrated, standard ...
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HP switches sending multi-cast ping requests

I'm not our normal network guy... I've just been drafted to help with this issue, so please bear with me. We have a fairly large (~4,000 devices?) network mostly comprised of HP Procurve gear. From ...
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Getting apache to respond to http broadcasts

I was wondering if there is a way to configure Apache to respond to http requests sent to the broadcast address (ie. 192.168.1.255). Thanks
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RV042 - how to broadcast UDP through VPN

I setup a gateway to gateway vpn connection with linksys RV042 router. i was able to ping each other, access file sharing ( with netbios enabled ). They are having same subnet mask 255.255.255.0, ...
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Bonjour/mDNS Broadcast across subnets

I have just setup a new OSX Server in our office and verified that everything is working fine over our wired network (192.168.126.0/24). The problem that I am having is that our clients (Mac Laptops) ...
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Broadcast UDP over VPN

I have OpenVPN configured and have 5 dd-wrt router clients. I would like the machines on those routers to be-able to UDP Broadcast across all 5 networks. I cannot bridge the interfaces(to my ...
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Local Live Quicktime Video Broadcast, latency?

I'm looking into the feasibility of using a local server to distribute live video of a conference to delegates in the same room. They would still hear the live audio coming from the speaker, so only ...
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broadcast ping on windows LAN

I have a LAN of windows machine some running XP some running 2000, my broadcast ping times out all the time. is it due to firewall? or some other setting in registry?
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How is frequency multiplexing implemented?

How is frequency multiplexing implemented? I understand that in time division multiplexing the feed of each channel just uses its own time interval for sending out data over the same medium. But how ...
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Broadcast message

I had a ssh connection to a remote server and just got a message Broadcast message from foo@foo (/dev/tty2) at 19:17 ... The system is going down for reboot NOW! Connection to foo closed by remote ...
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How to alter the global broadcast address (255.255.255.255) behavior on Windows?

Desired behavior When an application sends a packet to the global broadcast IP address 255.255.255.255, I would like that the packet be sent to the Ethernet global broadcast address ...
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Cisco 1242 WAP Configuration to broadcast SSIDs

OK, one would think this would be an easy question to answer. But searching online yields no results to our particular issue. We have Cisco WAPs that require configuration to broadcast the SSID of our ...
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What happens if I ask 127.0.0.1 via arp broadcasting?

Will all the computers on the network will answer me?
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Unicast video streaming on FreeBSD

I need to broadcast one live video stream from Windows machine (captured by TV tuner) to many viewers in the Internet. Because bandwidth is limited on this machine it should be forwarded to FreeBSD ...
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What is responsible of setting up the default broadcast address?

The broadcast address is apparently misconfigured on some (old) Linux embedded device that I setup (but that I don't own anymore) because it doesn't match the expected value given the IP address and ...