Setup internet connection sharing on ubuntu with Firestarter
Firestarter is an easy to install firewall application for Ubuntu which also has to the option to enable Internet Connection Sharing at the click of a mouse. Install firestarter $ sudo apt-get install...
View ArticleMonitor per process network bandwidth on linux with nethogs
Nethogs Nethogs is a command line utility for linux that displays the network bandwidth used by each application or process in realtime. It is useful in situations when a certain process uses up too...
View ArticleChoose between modphp , suphp , cgi , fastcgi , suexec
PHP Handlers PHP handlers are a link between a webserver(say Apache) and the PHP libraries. PHP handlers enable a webserver to load the PHP library in a certain manner and execute the PHP code and...
View ArticleCheck port forwarding with netcat
Port forwarding is a configuration in the router of a LAN such that any connections to a specific port number on the public/wan ip of the router may be forwarded to a specific machine/ip inside the...
View ArticleSpeed up your internet by using the fastest dns servers
The speed of your internet browsing depends on the dns servers to a certain extent. Whenever a url is opened in the browser, the browser has to first perform a dns request to get the ip address of that...
View ArticleUdp telnet with netcat
The standard telnet utilities that ship with linux or windows allow to telnet to services running on TCP ports. They do not support udp ports. However the utility netcat can be used for working with...
View ArticleTcpdump tutorial – Sniffing and analysing packets from the commandline
Tcpdump Tcpdump is a commandline network analyzer tool or more technically a packet sniffer. It can be thought of as the commandline version of wireshark (only to a certain extent, since wireshark is...
View ArticleAdd wireless router to existing wired network or lan
Wired Network Lets say you have an existing wired network setup at your workstation or home somewhat like this Adsl Modem/Router (192.168.1.1) => Switch => Multiple Pcs (192.168.1.10,...
View ArticleShare tata photon connection across lan in ubuntu
In a previous article we saw how a windows netbook/laptop can be used to share a tata photon connection with other computers on a LAN. Now we shall do the same thing on Ubuntu. The technique is very...
View ArticleProxify applications with torsocks
Many applications do not directly support the use of socks proxy. Torsocks enables such applications to use the tor socks proxy. Shell wrapper to simplify the use of the torsocks library to...
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