Questions tagged [gateway]

A gateway is a network node used in telecommunications that connects two networks with different transmission protocols together.

A gateway is a network node used in telecommunications that connects two networks with different transmission protocols together.

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A gateway computer that sits between different networks or applications. The gateway converts information, data or other communications from one protocol or format to another.

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open source solution to a gateway for a network of a housing cooperative of 150 people

i just inherited a barely functioning network for a student housing cooperative of about 150 people. in it's current state, as i understand it from the previous person in charge of the network, we have working wireless access points and working…
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I need to change the external IP address based on source IP address

I'm running an iptables firewall with 5 aliased ip addresses (actual ip 10.64.18.1). This machine is also my gateway out for all internal machines (192.168.18.*). My problem is, when 192.168.18.65 goes out, I need my gateway to say the IP is…
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What is the right place for default gateway in CentOS/RHEL?

As I can see there are 2 places where GATEWAY option could be used in CentOS: /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* What is the right place for default gateway and what the difference?
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How to force IE to choose a network card in Windows?

I have 2 network cards each connecting to a different network. For some web sites I need to force IE to use a particular one. How could this be done? P.s. This is NOT VPN related. Both network connections are regular connections.
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Calculate data transferred in a local LAN

How do you calculate the data flown between a computer and the gateway computer. I have a Linux router/gateway running IP Tables which routes internet traffic in a LAN. I have individual users with IP/MAC Address mapped who access Interet through…
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Centos 6.2 Fresh 'Basic Server' install networking issues

I've had a /29 provisioned on a network port for a server and am trying to at least configure the machine so I can ssh into it. It's Centos 6.2 x64 with the Basic Server install. Currently not able to ping gateway or any address for that matter. For…
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Xen machine can see others on subnet but not gateway

EDIT: solved it appears that switching static MAC definitions combined with mapping vif/0 and vif/0 statically to eth0 and eth1 (in domU, as per http://tomclegg.net/xen-eth0-renamed) done it. I'm troubleshooting this strange issue (well, for me at…
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iptables gateway not working on clients

I am not sure what's going on, but I have setup a gateway debian box with iptables and dhcpd server. The server is handing out the ip addresses to the clients just fine, gateway being set to the debian box and dns set to the ISP dns. Now I can't…
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setting up 2 subnets, Windows Clients (30 nodes), Linux Server, Samba, FOG

Its my first post on serverfault and my first time to setup this kind of network, so my apologies in advance if it is not well formed. I'm planning a small (education center) network that has about 20-30 windows Student PCs, tablets and employee…
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Monitor bandwidth usage of a datacenter

I would like to know what application is best for measuring bandwidth usage in large datacenters. Our company is in the process of setting up a DC which will have around 1000 physical servers. We want to measure the outgoing and incoming traffic…
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How can I share my internet connection to my LAN with Debian?

I'm trying to make my Debian server the router for my LAN. I got two interfaces: eth0 connects to internet through PPPoE, eth1 to LAN. I switched on forwarding in sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 and disabled iptables(policy accept). I can ping the…
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Traceroute doesn't reach gateway

I have problem with my openSUSE 11.3 network. So, I've assigned IP address 192.168.137.2 to it, and another computer (Windows 7) with IP address 192.168.137.1. On the openSUSE, the gateway is the 192.168.137.1. and the ping result is ping…
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Port Forwarding not working locally

I have a new Comcast Business Gateway that just replaced my old, perfectly-functional residential modem. I noticed the router I had only had a 10/100 ethernet WAN port but I have a 100mbit connection, so I took the router off and my speeds jumped…
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Linux Ubuntu - Two NICs separate lan

I have this /etc/network/interfaces (IPs on eth1 are fake) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.2.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.2.255 gateway 10.0.2.2 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address…
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SMS Gateway Hardware/Software

What would be the best hardware and software to set up a Linux-based SMS gateway using a Sprint texting plan?
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