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Wired to wireless bridge in Linux
I am attempting to set up my Raspberry Pi as a bridge, using Debian wheezy. I have a hostapd.conf: (some details changed for security, and yes, I know WEP is no good)...
interface=wlan0
bridge=br0
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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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Can a Linux machine act as both a wireless client and access point simultaneously using a single physical WLAN interface?
If I have only 1 physical WLAN interface, is there some hackery that can be done so that it can be a client of an existing access point and at the same time also act as an access point for other ...
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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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Using command line to connect to a wireless network with an http login
I'm trying to connect to a wifi network where it hijacks all requests and redirects you to a page where you have to agree to a terms of use before it lets you connect to the actual outside world. This ...
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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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wpa_supplicant for dual WLAN
I've got wlan0 and wlan1. Each interface should connect to a different SSID.
I would like to use wpa_supplicant for both.
I can put the two networks in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf, but how do I tell ...
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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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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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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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Installing wireless Broadcom drivers on Arch Linux
So how do I accomplish this last step to this journey? I already installed Xfce even, thanks to Ethernet I was able to.
However I still need to figure out the wireless drivers. I've already tried ...
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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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WiFi authentication times out
Since today I have this very annoying issue that the WiFi on my HP ProBook is not authenticating anymore. I haven't changed any settings and my mobile phone connects to the WiFi fine. Also trying ...
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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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Make NetworkManager prefer ethernet over wifi if both present
A similar question was asked for windows Automatically prefer Ethernet over WLAN but I'm on linux and am using NetworkManager.
Right now if the ethernet cable is plugged in and is available while ...
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