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Does MTU setting affect sending, receiving, or both?

Setting MTU on your end will also affect any connections made from you, at least for TCP. The SYN-ACK handshake sets Max Segment Size, which is based off MTU of the interface. Thus, return packets ...
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Switches in chain topology for ~40 devices

To justify anything you need goals in mind. What are these "DUTs"? (I'm guessing DUT stands for "device under test" but that still leaves a load of possibilities open). What are ...
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What happens when the sender sends more data then the advertised window by the receiver?

Depending on the host implementation, two outcomes are possible: (strict) since the received SEQ is outside the receive window, the sender is assumed to be out of sync and the connection is RST (more ...
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Would a /24 public ip range typically be from the same country?

/24 is the longest prefix you can advertise over BGP, so it's generally atomic within an AS. However, there's nothing stopping the AS from routing each single address to different parts of the globe. ...
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Setting up a local network with access to the internet through a wireless access point

If you already have a laptop connected to the WiFi Access Point then connect that laptop to the switch. Switch by default will use your laptop as a gateway to the Internet. Thus all connected ...
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IPerf test| Server side Sender data shows that the bandwidth is zero but Client has bandwidth of 125 Mbps

With iPerf3 [1], looking at, respectively working from the responder or "server" side (running iperf3 -s) is of lesser interest. You can gain as much, or even more information from the ...
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Setting FortiGate HA Firewall

What type of Switch do i need for WAN-B L2/L3? (sitting between ISP and Firewall)? Assuming an HA setup with dual firewalls: Actually, just about any switch will do. An unmanaged one has the ...
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Setting FortiGate HA Firewall

You would need to connect both ISPs to both firewalls if you want to retain the dual WAN design throughout a failover scenario. If the satellite service cannot easily be connected to the second ...
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Multiple computers disconnect from the network randomly at mostly random times; only fixed by renewing IP

You're not provided much detail on your network and end-node handling (infrastructure, firewalls, ...). The general troubleshooting steps are working your way up the network layers: Physical layer - ...
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Multiple computers disconnect from the network randomly at mostly random times; only fixed by renewing IP

I am suspecting that there may be a problem with the DNS server which is randomly disconnecting these users. In some computers it happens at specific times; at round 01:30PM. (Bordering on this ...
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Difference between SDN and Network Automation

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Automation are related concepts but serve distinct purposes. Software-Defined Networking (SDN): SDN involves abstracting network control to a software ...
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Difference between SDN and Network Automation

If you program/automate your conventional network devices with tools like Ansible, that is network automation. The basic approach is to not touch each single device but use rulesets/policies that you ...
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