Questions tagged [networking]
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How to find out the original source of a proxy [closed]
I recently rented a couple of proxies (ipv4 ip with a non-standard port).
I have a feeling the provider is a reseller for a larger proxy company. I have noticed his user interface dashboard looks ...
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Can a single subnet work across several switches?
New to networking and studying hard but limited access to a kit to try things at the moment...
My question is - if I had, for example, two Layer-2 switches cable connected, could I have devices on ...
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Relationship between full duplex and speed
Full-duplex data transmission means that data can be transmitted in both directions on a signal carrier at the same time. but my question is if we have an interface with 100Mb speed and full-duplex ...
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Two sites with public IP's in same subnet. Spoof detection
I have encountered an non standard issue and can't seem to figure out a way to get it to work.
I have 2 sites, 1 main and one branch.
At the main site I have 2 ISP's and the branch I have only 1 ISP....
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What services are included in DMZ(DeMilitarized Zone) and what services are in HSZ(High Security Zone)? [closed]
In an organization, How to determine what goes into DMZ and what goes to HSZ?
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How to divide an IPv4 network into three separate networks? [duplicate]
I have an address of 192.168.100.0(/24) and I need to separate it into three networks using VSLM. One needs 70 hosts, another needs 30 hosts and the last needs 25 hosts. What is the most efficient way ...
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Intercontinental Connection Design in Packet Tracer and what is it [closed]
I know this question is really vast and can have many possibilities but I am still gonna ask it because it is completely confusing for me.
I just want to know how it is different from the WAN that we ...
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Does UDP perform packet re-ordering at the destination?
User Datagram Protocol is a simpler message-based connectionless protocol. Connectionless protocols do not set up a dedicated end-to-end connection. Communication is achieved by transmitting ...
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Ipv6 link-local/multicast issue [duplicate]
When you ping a link-local address why is the destination (in packet tracer) to the solicited-node multicast address of the host and not the (FE80) link local address ? I understand that it needs to ...
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Why does DHCP use UDP and not TCP?
DHCP uses UDP as its transport protocol. DHCP messages that a client sends to a server are sent to well-known port 67 (UDP—Bootstrap Protocol and DHCP). DHCP Messages that a server sends to a client ...
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MTU 9000 and 1500 when machines with MTU 1500 send data to machines with MTU 9000
we have some machines in the cluster
linux machines as Linux_a , linux_b are configured with MTU 1500
while linux machines - linux_1 and linux_2 are configured with MTU 9000
so
linux machines - ...
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How to handle multicast address collisions?
Assume 2 multicast IP addresses IP1 and IP2 whose mac addresses are same due to collision
Let's say a host's NIC has joined multicast stream IP1 and another host on the original host's subnet joined ...
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There have DHCP relay for different vlans issue in my MX-480 router
I have the network topology:
in this topology, in my router, I set the DHCP relay:
admin@MX-RE0# show forwarding-options dhcp-relay
server-group {
smart_group {
103.57.xxx.19;
}
}
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What's the “routing-instance” in networking?
When I read this Article:
there is a term routing-instance, how to understand this term?
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How to calculate bits needed for host, bits left for network, number of available networks? [duplicate]
I have a class b address of 145.14.0.0
I need to create a scheme where each subnet accommodates 2259 hosts.
can someone explain step by step how to do that
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What are Cisco Devices? [closed]
I am doing CCNA online and not for a minute have I not failed to come acroos the statement 'Cisco Device'
What exactly are cisco devices ? Please don't tell me 'Devices that use Cisco iOS'
Can you ...
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Why computers can communicate on different networks and routers won't?
I have a problem that I can not understand it myself and I need some help. I'm doing a kind of challenge, well network challenge in cisco packet tracer. I have a .pka file that stands for Cisco Packet ...
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Crossover Cabling - Reversing TX and RX Signals [duplicate]
It is often said that crossover cables 'reverse the transmit and receive signals' compared to straight through cables. However I am yet to see an actual explanation of why the reversal of signals is ...
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How to find out which port is located on a switch physically
I'm trying to physically located a port on a switch. I know which port the mac address is connected to. The port is Gi2/0/14. But this is part of a stack. How do I know which switch this port belongs ...
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Cisco ASA and a Router?
I'm trying to understand networking and when looking at the different routers, firewalls and switches, I came across Cisco ASA. I've read that these can be used as firewalls and routers but others say ...
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Route advertisement and FIB programming
Que1. Assuming bgp is running on a network device, will the route advertisement and FIB programming(basically populating entries in hardware) occur in parallel?
Or does it occur sequentially, meaning, ...
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What layers of the TCP/IP model does an SDN involve?
New to Software-Defined Networks.
I know that an SDN involves an Application plane, a control plane and infrastructure plane. By definition, I know that the application plane is in the Application ...
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What is the difference between meters and queues in Openflow?
I'm new to OpenFlow and have just started studying Software Defined Networking. I have found a multiple websites mentioning that queues and meters are complementary to each other, and that they should ...
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Connecting 2 buildings on same site via fiber
If I have 2 buildings on the same site, connected to each other via a fiber connection and they both run to the same ISP, would both buildings need to be connected to a firewall?
For the main ...
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Is it possible to query interface statistics bytes by given start time to end time in Juniper Device?
I can query a interface detail:
admin@Juniper-EX# run show interfaces ge-0/0/1 detail
Physical interface: ge-0/0/1, Enabled, Physical link is Down
Interface index: 131, SNMP ifIndex: 504, ...
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CISCO Packet Tracer
Does Cisco Packet Tracer support config memory and config network command? If no, then do enterprise routers still support it?
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Suitable Laptops
Not sure if this topic or question has been asked before but if I was to buy a 2019 top spec macbook pro, would instill be able to connect to Cisco devices, I'll be running windows on it as well but ...
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what are Hardware size and protocol size in ARP header? Attached image
While working on packet capture for a simple scan, just had a look at packet capture and want to know what does hardware size and protocol size means in a ARP header?
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what is difference between MSS and Window Size?
What is actual difference b/w these two?
1) I have gone through many tutorials on Youtube where some have told that Window Size is what total packet size it can receive eg Window Size is 15000 bytes
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Strict source routing using my own scattered PCs/ routers
I would like to completely control my network transportation by defining the packages path. According to this I can't do it unless I have control over all the PCs/ routers in its way. Suppose, I can ...
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What are network port maps and what are they used for by the networking team in an organization?
I am curious to know what information generally the port maps contain.
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How to analysis the below situation, is the too many switch trunk connect caused this issue?
I have two Juniper EX switches, and the Juniper-EX-01(ge-0/1/1) connected to the Juniper-EX-02(ge-0/1/0). I want to check is there any optical attenuation problem, or other link errors.
admin@...
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What is POF in networking?
I was reading some academic articles about networking when I read "protocol oblivious forwarding (POF)" which I tried to google it but I got nothing to simplify it.
Please, what is protocol oblivious ...
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telnet connection response if port is closed on firewall [closed]
If port xxx is not open on a firewall, what would be the telnet response when attempting to open a telnet session from a remote host in network "A" connected via site-to-site VPN with network "B"?
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Is there a way to determine my network transportation to specific path?
How can I determine my network transportation to specific path. I would like to determine that my data packages will go through specific routers.
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IPSec VPN timers query
I have a couple of queries related to the IPSec VPN and I believe someone would clarify my doubts.
Why IKE Lifetime and IPSec Lifetime is used? Can't we just run the VPN without re-negotiating?
Why ...
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Does transmission delay affect both outgoing and incoming traffic?
If the transmission delay is the time it takes for a router to put a certain number of bits onto a link, why wouldn't it take the same amount of time to take them off the link? Thus making the total ...
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Router Extended Access Control List
Why can't we place the Extended ACL close to the destination not the source ? What will happen if we do so ?
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How to check if any network connection is quite stable
Is there any ways that we can understand a network is quite stable?
In previous time a serial network interface did fail sometimes to establish a connections.
Now I have replaced a new one [...
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Router Standard ACL
I was configuring Standard ACL on router 1841 on Cisco Packet Tracer with the help of command access-list 1 permit 172.16.40.3 0.0.0.0 and access-list 1 deny 172.16.40.4 0.0.0.0 and then I applied ...
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Why the three-way handshake use so short time accomplish it?
I use the Wireshark captured the packages:
in there you see the number 1594-1596, the three-way hankshake only use 0.0002s(0.2ms) it complete it.
but when I in the server(103.215.9.27) ping the ...
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What's the DF flag mean in IP packet header?
In the IP package, there is DF flag: Don't Fragment.
I have doubt about it, is it mean let all the L3 device do not to fragment the IP packet (if the L3 device found it is bigger than MTU, device ...
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what is the definition of out degree and in degree in computer networks?
in wikipedia we have a good definition for in degree and out degree in a graph: " The degree of a node is the number of connections or edges the node has to other nodes. in-degree is the number of ...
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Why the TCP client haven't receive the ACK response, it send the FIN package?
I use the WireShark captured the TCP connect.
you see the three-way handshake(1-3) and the four-way handshake(5-8):
But, from the frame list, I have a question about TCP.
You know the TCP should ...
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Why the seq number set to random, there will be safer in TCP connect?
From the TCP document
I have read this:
First, client sends a TCP packet with_ SYN=1, ACK=0 and ISN(Sequence Number)= 5000_. Do not forget, sequence number is random and it could be between 0 to 4,...
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is there any limit/role for `syn` initial number and `seq` number of TCP three-way handshake?
We know the TCP three-way handshake, I want to know is there any limit/role for syn initial number and seq number?
I hear about the number set random can protect server, who can help talk about this?
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Why the TCP traceroute map jump over many routers? [closed]
I can not understand this TCP traceroute map:
This is a TCP traceroute from Chongqing,China to LA,USA:
the 219.158.3.146 is Beijing Unicom the 219.158.96.26 is LA Unicom.
the path is this:
Why the ...
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Set up multiple WAP4410N AP with same SSID
We are facing a WiFi connection issue in the prod environment at client place (a big hall, around 200ft x 150ft). Details:
Environment:
4 Cisco WAP4410N Access points mounted on the pillars in the ...
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Reasons for buying ASN for organisation that are located at single place
I see here that even some organisation/universities have bought ASN which are located at single location. What benefit they will get by buying ASN ? Is it compulsory to buy ASN if I have to buy some ...
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What is benefit of allocating ASN to edge routers and not Ip addresses
What is benefit of allocating ASN to edge routers and not Ip addresses ? I mean we could have given these edge routers unique public ip addresses too ?
