Questions tagged [traffic]
For questions about network traffic (or data traffic), where it is the amount of data moving across a network at a given point of time. Only use this tag in relation to on-topic network devices.
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Interesting Traffic and Management Traffic
I am trying to understand the types of traffic the NSOC deals with when updating devices across the gateways or even local to the NSOC.
Can anyone help me understand the types of traffic that there ...
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Change source and destination adresses from a valid captured ping to create a valid ping with different source and destination
I want to create traffic in my network, especially
I want to send a repetitive ping to the device with the IP 192.168.3.146 from my traffic generator (IP 192.168.3.100) (see scematic)
For the creation ...
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what will be fast way of finding the live hosts on network?
what will be fastest way to find the live hosts on network. Currently i am finding the live network hosts using arp request and arp response. I have to find these live hosts every second. Is there any ...
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Is TCP used for data transfer after building the routing tables (using OSPF protocol)
I am trying to understand how Data (video, image, ...) is sent over the network, and what are the protocols and different processes involved. We know that OSPF (L3 protocol) does not use TCP or UDP, ...
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Blocking traffic means can't access that server?
I know this is a super newbie question.
I recently learn about firewall and you would know there is security levels.
The higher levels can send the traffic but cannot get it from the lower one.
I am ...
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Mobile cellular Networks (GSM, LTE, 5G, ...) and MAC addresses
We've been provided with a new firmware for our telematics units, which connects to the Internet via a VPN provided by a mobile carrier; since this new firmware release, we've noticed that each and ...
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Why would I need fq_codel? [closed]
I've been studying TC for a while.
I came across this answer containing a script.
In it we set the egress limit as:
# setup bandwidth limiting:
tc qdisc add dev "$DEV" root handle 1: tbf ...
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What's difference between traffic shaper and scheduler?
Can't find a clear answer in Google. Both drop packets when the queue is filled. So why two terms are used? If the shaper includes the scheduler, then what else do the shaper besides the dropping?
Or ...
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How does deep packet inspection (DPI) extract metadata from packets?
DPI software extracts metadata (as an additional function apart from classifying applications / protocols)
But how does it do this? For classification, I get that you can use pattern matching or port-...
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Newby question: what is the backbone of a script to limit incoming and outgoing network speed, using TC? [closed]
I am new to TC / tc (traffic control), but I need to limit the speed of incoming/outgoing network traffic for a docker container.
I read a lot, but still I have a lot of confusion on what is needed.
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is it possible calculate a IP of Transit Traffic's rate in Juniper port mirroring?
In Juniper Router MX480, we can configure the port mirroring of a transmit port.
then, is it possible calculate a IP of Transit Traffic's rate in Juniper port mirroring?
I mean, I can configure B port ...
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Does the control packets flow into a router/switch through forwarding plane? [duplicate]
I know there are two platforms in any networking device separating the control packets from the traffic, which I call control plane and data plane. My question is, how does the control packets enter ...
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What is the size of an empty 4G network packet (with TCP/IP)?
Fellow users,
What is the size of an empty 4G packet (LTE Protocol Stack) with TCP/IP?
I'm not looking for the MTU, but the minimum number of bytes necessary to build a LTE Protocol packet with TCP/IP....
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what happend when inbound traffics over the limit of bandwidth? [closed]
Sorry for my English.
Let's say there is a chat server in AWS and it has bandwidth limit like 5Gbps. Someday, massive user comes and it spikes a lot of traffic in a second and finally it overs 5Gbps ...
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How to monitor vlan using SNMP?
I am a newbie to building a monitor system using Prometheus and SNMP exporter, I have succeeded get metric from the physical interface, but I want to monitor VLAN on a trunk port, is that possible ? ...
