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How can I open different browsers' windows with different network adapters?
I am trying to test a Wi-Fi network and I need to have the possibility to open different windows of Chrome or Firefox with a specific network adapter (for example, I have two Wi-Fi network adapters – ...
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What is the meaning of entries when running 'ifconfig -a'
When I run ifconfig -a on my Chromebook (both through shell inside ChromeOS and my Ubuntu chroot) I get the following entries:
acrbr0: ...
lo: ...
veth_android: ...
wlan0: ...
I was able to find ...
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How to bridge tap to eth0 on raspberry pi?
I am using my raspberry pi as a openvpn cleint for my xbox 360 because at my college i get kicked off xbox live for either strict nat type or a connection limit. I can connect to the vpn just fine, i ...
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Bonding two wifi adapters
I saw a network once that used bonding (some people called it "port trunking") to combine two network cards into a single connection to get twice the bandwidth. I have a slow Wifi network with not so ...
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hostapd: how to block only NetBIOS broadcasts to clients in same WLAN by applying network restrictions
I have set up a Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi hotspot via hostapd, dnsmasq and iptables routing using this excellent tutorial: https://thepi.io/how-to-use-your-raspberry-pi-as-a-wireless-access-point/.
Although ...
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Traffic not being forwarded through NAT
I have a router which provides internet access using NAT, and a client Linux box (A) which is connected to this router on eth0.
This Linux box also has a wlan interface, wlan0; what I would like is ...
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Setting local network via WiFi
There are:
Notebook running Ubuntu 12.04 acting as server machine
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server
Some devices with WiFi ability
I want to configure local WiFi network on my notebook, so ...
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How to determine what type of wifi networks are supported by your driver on Linux
On Linux (specificially Ubuntu) what's the easiest way to determine what types of Wifi protocols your hardware and driver support?
I have a router running DD-WRT that supports broadcasting in both a ...
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Why does pinging a local router return "Destination Host Unreachable"?
I have two tomato routers. One is bridged wirelessly with the other.
I have a new server on the network. It's running Ubuntu Server 11.04.
They are all connected like this:
A - Linux PC
B - New ...
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linux ping not actually sending 1 packet per second
I've been experiencing some odd behavior. While on a congested wireless network I run
$ ping google.com
I expect one packet to be sent out each second and only some of them to come back with a ...
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Unable to connect to multiple WiFi networks via multiple virtual interfaces
My laptop have an atheros WiFi card, I created 2 virtual interfaces on top of it, with following commands:
iw dev wlan0 interface add vlan0 type station
iw dev wlan0 interface add vlan1 type station
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Connect to two wifi networks with one wifi network card on Linux
I am not sure if this is doable but I came to think of an idea. So we have two wireless networks at home, basically what I do is to switch connection to each access point in order to connect to the ...
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Configuring Linux as a Wireless Router (Configure Wireless Card as AP on Separate Network)?
I have a custom built home security system I am working on using Arch Linux, Zoneminder, and a set of Foscam FI9800P wireless IP cameras.
The system being built has a gigabit ethernet port which I ...
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How can I tell if my multiple network interfaces are working ok?
On Ubuntu 14.04 x86-64 I have a wireless broadband connection and a USB tethered one (it's on 4G, not the same wireless):
route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask ...
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Linux: Share Wireless Connection Through the same Wireless Interface [duplicate]
Is it possible to accomplish in Linux the functionality of Windows Virtual Router (http://virtualrouter.codeplex.com/)?
In another words, i want to have a NIC connected to an access point, and the ...