I am making the commitment to a linux server and am excited about all of the possibilities. One thing I was hoping for is network monitoring. My internet is not very good (DSL) and if an attached device decides to download an update it makes Netflix sputter and collapse. The problem is I have to check each device manually to see if the network drain is on my end or if it’s the ISP crapping out. This can be time consuming and frustrating.
Is there a program that can easily tell me how much information is being uploaded and downloaded onto the WWW? I fear this is going to need a router upgrade and my router won’t run DD-WRT or Tomato.
Thank you in advance
I have several computers connected to a D-Link DIR605L router, two with ethernet cables and two through wifi. The Windows XP computer can see itself and nobody else. The Ubuntu (trusty) desktop and Ubuntu (lucid) netbook computers see nobody (unable to retrieve file list from server) and the Windows Vista computer only sees itself. Clearly, I have failed to configure something or a set of somethings.
Do I have to have one of the computers always on, acting as some kind of file server or can the router do this job? This is a new router. My old one (whose power supply went phut) connected everybody without arguing about it and we could share files around, even with a mix of OSs.
Since this is a local network only, I have no firewalls enabled, as far as I know ...
All of the network set-up posts I've found rabbit on about how to get your internet connection working through your router, which is not an option for me. I have dial-up working on the XP computer and a mobile wireless USB dongle for internet access on the trusty desktop.
I've installed samba and a few other packages, but so far, none of them have solved my problem. Can someone please tell me where to start and which tutorials to read? If I have to set up a computer as a file server, I guess it will have to be the XP thing, as it's the only one that is always running, but I'd like to avoid that, if possible, as I speak XP worse than I speak Ubuntu.
BTW, D-Link are no help at all, two hours on the 'phone and they were still trying to get me to connect to an ADSL service I don't have ...
Hi everyone, I am a new member and also new to linux, I encountered a problem, but last week I tried but did not solve
I downloaded iso file linux 1.1.0 on page potassium https://www.kali.org, I installed on my Dell inspiron n4010, it works very well and does not have any errors, but after I update and upgrade all packages, I rebooted the system switches to the command line, I lost a lot of time to return to the graphics, but when booting up the network manager icon not seen, I have set the package network-manager-gnome_0.9.4.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb network manager icon show but when click on the network manager icon only contained text "network manager is not running."
I also installed Wicd but could not run "could not connect to wicd's D-Bus interface. Check the wicd log for error messages."
wireless driver apparently was set before
root@kali:~# airmon-ng
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
phy0 wlan0 wl Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
please help me!
please guide installed offline, my kali linux no internet connection. can download package from another machine to install.
Hello, My issue is very common but, not able to resolve it.
Issue I am facing with my Linux (RHEL-5 32-bit) machine, where I am not able to connect to internet.
DWR-113 - D-Link Router is configured for 3G dongle (Vodafone India) - This setup is done via WiFi and not using the provided LAN cable from Win7 machine.
Internet is working absolutely fine in case of Wireless but, at same time when LAN cable is used internet is not working. [Able to ping to Router IP i.e. 192.168.0.1)
Similarly, from Linux box, ping to Router IP is working [LAN plugged] but, Internet not working. IP of linux machine: 192.168.0.60
Also, able to get the console connection of Linux from Windows box..[Windows connected to Router via WiFi and Linux connected to Router via LAN cable]
Please suggest how to get rid of this problem so that Internet will work on Linux via LAN cable.
Many Thanks,
Hello.
I don't know if this forum is the correct one to ask about this problem. Feel free to move it to another forum.
I am running PelicanHPC, a Debian-live based clustering distro.
It sets up a DHCP server, and offer PXE boot to other machines in a network.
I have switch off the DHCP server in my router.
Problem is that when I boot from this computer through the network, it displays a message for a split of a second: Succeed download. I guess that it is downloading the NBP correctly. But then, it's just returning to BIOS and/or booting my OS normally.
The other computer is offering a non-EFI image, and this computer boots: UEFI: PXE IPv4. Maybe there is a mismatch, but I have no idea on how to fix this.
What can I do to boot it correctly?
If you need more information, just ask me about it.
Thank you
Hi,
I have Kali linux and updated it a few days ago and now when I search for networks after going into monitor mode it tells me "no wireless networks found". before the update, monitor mode used to be "mon0" After the update, after entering monitor mode it says "wlan0mon" not sure if this helps. I use Wicd network manager but the origional network manager also cant see any wireless networks, it says "device not managed".
Thanks
We have 20 systems and I installed SQUID proxy on CENTOS to limit internet access but I'm unable to configure LAN and WAN. We have got one router in the network with 192.168.1.1 as default gateway. I installed squid successfully but unable to configure it in client systems as I'm unable to configure LAN and WAN ips in CentOS.
Please suggest me correct configuration of LAN and WAN for my network. We don't have any static IP with us. What series of IPs do I have to configure in Linux server? After that, what would be my Proxy IP?
I have basic knowledge about Linux...
Please suggest me Conf file accordlingly.
Newbie question on networking he
I read an article on network tools (tcpdump, wireshark, nmap etc)
One big distinction was made between network sniffers and network injectors. Of course, I cannot find the article anymore on the internet.
A brief explanation would be more than welcome.
Have had ongoing problems with wifi since I built my PC. It was like it is now when I first built it, I tried bits I found online to try and fix it and evntually it just started working out of the blue, when I hadn't changed anything. A few weeks ago it just reverted to how it was before
Very rarely it works normally, except it will only see my network (always about 60-70% strength) and not the other 3 in range
Sometimes it will say it is connected but not be able to download anything, and wont even load up the router homepage
Sometimes it connect and run for a few minutes before dropping and not being able to reconnect
Most often it will see my network and all others in range but wont connect
Sometimes it wont see my network at all, but will see others in range
Sometime network manager wont even show wireless up as an option just "nwtwork cable unplugged"
My 2 HDDs are on Mint 17.1, one is 64bit one 32bit. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P. I have 3 wifi adapters, one belkin, one realtek, and one "Think Penguin" one I bought especially from USA thinking it would be an easy fix. All have same problem, but all work on my other older PC properly with about 50-60% signal strength (same OS 32 bit)
I have no idea where to start
Hello,
I am trying out a GNU-plus-Linux distribution called "Tails" for the first time. Tails is the distro that provides anonymity for the user by forcing all network traffic to go through the Tor network system. I am testing out Tails version 1.4.
Tails is a live DVD disc. It boots in live mode directly from the DVD and optical drive.
However, once I was booted into the desktop for the first time, it seems to not have been able to automatically find and configure my internet connection.
When I hover the pointer over the twin PC's icon in the system tray at the top right hand corner it says "No network connection".
Then, just to make sure, I opened the "Tor browser" and it gave me an error message that says "The proxy server is refusing connections".
Then to make triple sure, I opened the "Unsafe web browser" and it gave me the error message that says "Error No DNS server was obtained through DHCP or manualy configured in Network Manager".
So as a new user of this distro, I'm not sure on where to go and what to do. So any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
I recently decided to upgrade from Debian Squeeze to Wheezy. Update seemed to go fine with the exception of the following warning concerning my Broadcom bmc5704 gigabit ethernet cards
Quote:
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3
No problem I will simply install the missing .bin files after the upgrade. Get the .bin files from the Debian repository and install them using the command "dpkg -i file_name.deb" then ran "apt-get install -f" for good measure. Still nothing, I have downloaded the following files and running that same command for each hoping that this would solve my compatibility issue with no such luck.
Quote:
firmware-bnx2_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb
firmware-bnx2x_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb
firmware-linux-nonfree_0.36+wheezy.1_all.deb
firmware-linux-nonfree_0.36+wheezy.1~bpo60+1_all.deb
When I attempt to go into System Preferences > Network I get the message "The system network services are not compatible with this version."
I showed the hardware using the lshw command and here is the entry concerning the ethernet interface
Quote:
#output from lshw command
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:02:02.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:13:21:b2:cf:46
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pcix pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.116 duplex=full firmware=5704-v3.41, ASFIPMIc v2.36 ip=XX.XX.XX.154 latency=64 link=no mingnt=64 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:25 memory:fdf70000-fdf7ffff
Network file configuration.
Quote:
# Network file
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address XX.XX.XX.XX
netmask 255.255.255.0
network XX.XX.XX.0
broadcast XX.XX.XX.255
gateway XX.XX.XX.1
# dns-* options are implemented by the resolvconf package, if installed
dns-nameservers XX.XX.XX.XX 8.8.8.8
dns-search XXXXXXX.net
Server is an older HP ProLiant and I am attempting to put Wheezy on it from a direct upgrade from squeeze.
At this point I am stumped. Not sure exactly what to do but it seems like a fairly simple fix. If anyone has any suggestions I would sure appreciate the help. Let me know if you need anything.