Questions about configuring, troubleshooting or using connections that one device uses to talk to another.
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How to increase the amount of time the wifi waits before timing out a connection?
I'm currently traveling abroad. Sometimes when connecting to a very old or a heavily used router, the connection will timeout after 2-3 seconds. I think some of these routers just need more time to ...
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“df” command making network requests?
I was watching Little Snitch for another process, and noticed df was making requests to various servers. I thought df was only for checking free disk space locally, but it appears to be doing more ...
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Looking for specific help with networking iTunes with Air and Home Theatre PC
Let me explain my set up. I have a home theater PC that houses all my music files (about 500 gigs worth of music) but right now it just works as a server in that regard since I play all the music ...
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How to fix 10.8 internet sharing resulting in poor file sharing performance and no Time Machine server?
TL;DR - File sharing performance is extremely poor on a Mac Pro running 10.8.2 with file sharing enabled. Using it as a Time Machine server also no longer works in this setup.
I have been ...
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Nike+ FuelBand (Pedometer) with local analysis software - no personal data in cloud
I want to buy the Nike+ FuelBand, but don't want my information to be in the cloud.
Extracted from Wikipedia:
In addition to tracking personal workout statistics, the Nike+ integrates directly ...
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Wired network disconnects on 21.5" iMac
At work, I've got a new 21.5" iMac. If I leave the machine alone for 20-30 minutes, the wired network will lose it's connection. After I do something on the machine, the network comes back (usually ...
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Multi node cluster setup with home network for parallelized computing using e.g. hadoop, MPI or Rmpi
currently I am reading more and more about multi-core processing (threading) and parallel computing. So I was curious about how to use my 4-core processor to calculate parallelized algorithms using ...
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Browsing to a nested subdomain resolves wrong page
Our corporate network has some web applications hosted in a nested subdomain hierarchy. A "subdomain's subdomain", as you will. For example:
Root-> http://*.mydomain.com (resolves to: 192.2.2.200)
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migrating Ubuntu DHCPD to OS X Server
My LAN includes an Ubuntu 9.04 server which runs an ISC DHCP v3 daemon. I'd like to migrate the data from that daemon to a Lion OS X Server. Is there an easy way to do this (by copying the Ubuntu ...
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Why does the same computer appear multiple times on the network?
As can be seen below, the same computer shows up several times when I go to browse network. It only happens with this single laptop.
What causes this?
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FTP: active vs. passive, command line vs. browser
Here's a weird one for everyone. I'll use AskDifferent because my test bed is on a Mac, but I don't know that the underlying issue is specifically Mac.
My Mac is behind a NAT wall. Let's call my ...
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How to redirect all my WiFi-hotspot users a certain IP/domain..?
Is there any OSX router software or Airport config to redirect all the users that connect to my Airport WiFi-hotspot to a certain domain or local IP?
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Wired Network Connection getting auto configured IP Address
I recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion and experiencing strange behavior with my wired Ethernet connection. It cannot obtain an IP address from DHCP, where the wireless can, against the same ...
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Very long login times in Mac OS X
I am experiencing an issue with OS X 10.8.3, where it takes a very long time to login. It seems like it has something to do with which network I am connected to.
Explanation of the issue:
I get ...
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change MAC address in USB device
I'm trying to change the MAC on a USB wifi device. The usual way of doing it does nothing...
sudo ifconfig en4 ether 11:22:33:44:55:66
After doing the command there are no errors, but the MAC stays ...
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Time Capsule multiple IP addresses
I have two 2TB Time Capsules attached to a network through a Netgear router. Each Time Capsule is connected via Ethernet with the WiFi set to "off".
Each Time Capsule is assigned a unique static IP ...
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How to troubleshoot Network Connect issues?
I have to use Juniper's Network Connect to use my company's VPN. I haven't changed anything on my system in the past few days, but suddenly Network Connect fails to connect to the VPN with the ...
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Can't ping a linux server with MacOSX. Software related
I'm having an huge problem with my Mac, from months.
I have at home a linux server, a CuBox. It's running Archlinux, running fine. Everything works.
But the Mac can't ping the CuBox.
I will paste ...
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how to connect to a HTTP Proxy only if it is available
I am trying to view my website - hosted on my local server - from my iPhone. I am doing this my adding a http proxy information into my iPhone. Basically I am following This tutorial, it works ...
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Strange domain name appears in Sharing Preferences, source unknown
First of all before anyone asks, I have already set my DNS name in the Terminal with scutil, which is reflected on the Terminal prompt and returned by the hostname command. I also understand that this ...
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How do I set an empty search domain on Airport/Time Capsule
My ISP supplies their own search domain via DHCP, which I don't want being passed on to my own devices. However, if you leave the field for 'search domain' empty on an Airpot/Time Capsule it will ...
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Why are disk images on AFP shares being disconnected?
I have a FreeNAS File Server which provides AFP shares to my Mac OS X clients. I'm seeing some strange performance issues between OS X 10.7.5 clients and the FreeNAS server.
My goal is to use the ...
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Finder stuck at “connecting to server” via afp/smb
I own a NAS (a D-Link DNS 320, to be more specific) which has two hard drives and multiple network shares. I can connect to these network shares using the AFP or the SMB protocol.
When I want to ...
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Enable Internet Sharing over Bluetooth PAN
I'm trying to share my MacBook Pro's internet connection with my iPad over Bluetooth. The MacBook is running Snow Leopard.
On the Sharing preference page, I can select Ethernet as the source, but ...
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Visual Git Software that Supports Network Repos
So I've tried out quite a few visual git tools (Tower, GitBox SourceTree), but the I'm running into trouble.
On our developer environments, we don't clone into our local machines, we clone into our ...
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Renew for OpenAFS does not work
I use OSX 10.8.2 and OpenAFS 1.6.1a. Even I have checked "Enable auto-renew", the ticket allways expires. My settings:
Seconds before expire to renew: 4000
Ticket renewal check frequency: 3600
In ...
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Slow interent on 3g dongle Macbook pro Retina
Im getting very slow internet speeds when I use my Vodafone 3g dongle with the Macbook pro retina. But on the Macbook pro (2011) the internet is fine. Any ideas?
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Macbook Pro 10.7.5 I have internet connection but can't open any page
I need some help. My internet was working fine and all of a sudden I am not able to open a web page. I went through some of the steps you recommended to other users, such as adding DNS 208.67.222.222 ...
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How to debug SSH outgoing timeout
I am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011. For the last two days I have not been able to do SSH access to any external site.
"What's my IP" lists the open ports as ...
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I am downloading something with 300~1200kb/s? Any help?
Today I noticed that my system is downloading something and the download speed is around 300~1200kb/s.
I tried everything that I could thing of... installed Little Snitch 3 and I did not see anything ...
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Is there a OS X equivalent for iproute2?
I am searching a command line tool collection like iproute2 on Linux.
Network Utility is OK, but I would like it on the command line.
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Can't see AirPlay speakers/Airport Express if ethernet is plugged in
When my Windows laptop is connected to my network via Wi-Fi only, I can see and play to various AirPlay speakers in my house (an iHome AirPlay speaker, an Apple TV, and an Airport Express). When I ...
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iPad : how to set up to browse a private wireless network, not connected to the net, using only IP addresses?
I have a private wireless network setup that is not connected to the internet. There are only industrial controllers on this network and an iPad running an app that will control these systems. There ...
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How to modify the transmit queue length (buffer) of the network interface
How can I set the transmit queue length for a network interface on OS X? On linux the command would be:
ifconfig en0 txqueuelen 5
but OS X doesn't recognize txqueuelen as a valid option (nowhere ...
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Ip blocked since I updated my Mac to Mountain Lion
Since I've upgraded my mac from lion to mountain lion, the ip 5.9.31.48 (api.shellycloud.com) appear to be down (ping said that "Host is down"). So I think that there is somewhere a firewall rule that ...
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Permissions for /Volumes are different with Network vs Local Time Machine folders?
I've been running local Time Machine backups to an external FireWire drive since I got my MacBook a few months ago. But now that my wife picked up a MacBook as well, I'd like to move to a solution ...
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On resume from sleep, DHCP or ARP on the ethernet is not working
My mid-2011 iMac running Lion 10.7.5 has an intermittent problem. When I resume from sleep in the morning the ethernet fails to come up reliably. Sometimes it starts working immediately, sometimes it ...
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Accessing file shares on other mac on macs with shared connections
It is probably best to first describe the ridiculous network setup I have:
I have a time capsule connected via ethernet to my university's network. It is sharing this internet connection with a group ...
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Mac Mini Bridging to WiFi Network
I have a Mac Mini (Mountain Lion) connected to a WiFi network, getting a DHCP address from the router (ASUS N-16 Tomato).
In addition, I have a headless Ethernet-only appliance (Arch Linux ARM) which ...
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User accounts cannot browse web
I have an environment with multiple iMacs (OS X 10.7.4). Every iMac has an administrative account and several user accounts. These accounts are the same across all the machines. To browse the web, ...
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Snow Leopard Airport Join preferred device-based network
Is it possible to auto-join device-based networks on Snow Leopard (i.e. preferred)?
For example, by device-based network, I mean either a printer or an ad-hoc network.
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Network share permissions problems in Mountain Lion
After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I have experienced some weird problems with network share permissions. This network share is a Windows server which I login to like so: ...
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Forcing VPN on demand to “on”
When we install an iOS configuration profile for Cisco IPSec "VPN on Demand" (using certificate based machine authentication), a switch appears in the Settings > VPN Settings page: "Connect On Demand ...
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2010 MacBook Pro WiFi ignores DHCP answers only on a certain network
I have a 2010 MacBook Pro with OS version 10.7.4
Recently, the wifi connection stopped working on my home network: it fails to get an IP address.
Everything's fine if I assign an address, the other ...
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Repair network on Lion
I used to have Snow Leopard installed on a MacBook Pro and everything was fine. After upgrading to Lion network problems started to happen. Most of the time the network service can’t start (so I do ...
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Check / remove proxies from iPhone USB Personal Hotspot
I installed Charles Proxy to do some testing, later I disocvered that any traffic going through Personal Hotspot is also routed though to a local port. I've remove the Mac OS X proxy settings, but ...
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Routing all traffic except a few IP-ranges though default gateway in Mountain Lion
I am using VPN (Cisco IPSec) through the default Mountain Lion network preferences. In Lion (and also in Snow Leopard), I did the following to change the routing back to using my default gateway for ...
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What is the API call that iPhone makes to check if a number has iMessage enabled
I tried to sniff the http calls by setting up a proxy on my laptop in the same LAN as the iPhone. Once that was set up, I entered different numbers that I know have iMessage enabled into the number ...
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Do DHCP Client IDs showup in Airport Utility when Computer Name is shorter than 16 Characters?
My Airport Utility's (version 5) DHCP Clients list used to show the DHCP Client ID for each client, as defined for each connection in System Preferences/Network.
I then went and changed the ...
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How to prevent an automatic network share connection at startup?
Problem Synopsis: I have a WiFi router that can connect to a USB storage device and then allow access to that device over WiFi. I had once connected my Mac (OS X Lion 10.7.4) to such a storage device ...
