Iptables, is a great tool to create firewall in Linux, actually it is not only for that, but useful to pre-process or post-process any package of data that arrives to our Linux Operating System machine.
The other day I was needing to block the access to my network using the mac address of a machine, and Iptables come to save my day.
When I'm playing a game, I don't want Dropbox taking hogging my network connection. I have been able to noticeably reduce my latency by turning it off while playing. The same is true to a lesser extend for web browsing.
I'm looking for network equivalents for niceness and scheduling policies (SCHED_BATCH etc. in schedtool). Does such a thing exist?
How do I get a forked, execve() child process that can run 'vi', etc and redirect all IO to the parent process?
I'm trying to pass shells through from an embedded Linux process to the PC software interface connected over the network.
The IO for the shell process is packaged into app-specific messages for network transport over our existing protocol.
First, I was just redirecting IO using simply
Which service(s) (or ports) should I block in the Windows firewall (for all except my own ip's) to stop these brute force login attempts?
I'm currently in the process of setting up some D-Link DAP-2553 WiFi access points. They have the ability to broadcast multiple SSIDs. These SSIDs can be assigned to VLANS (which I am pretty new to).
**note to Moderaters - this is not a dupe of my General Discussion thread - this is specifically about blocking the actions of this process, not what it does :P
I noticed this in my process recently list:
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.6 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/2
It seems to make various outbound network requests.
Hi, I've recently installed ubuntu precise, the installation and update process was done using my wired network connection; after config my wireless card, eveytime i start my pc if the wired connection is not plugged I get I message "looking for network connection..." this process delays up to 4 minutes, then i boot into the X manager and after logon I get network connection through my w
I am running Ubuntu 11.10 in VirtualBox, on Windows 7. I'm trying to setup a serverside process like Apache on it.
A good mate on a forum had helped me with creating this script but everything Ive thrown at it outputs wrong and I do not know why or what is the issue. I ran all my script in ubuntu's terminal if questioned as bash test.sh.