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LAN, short for Local Area Network, is a network that connects multiple devices in a limited geographical area, such as a room, an apartment or a building. Currently, most LANs are based on Wi-Fi or Ethernet transmission.

LAN, short for Local Area Network, is a network that connects multiple devices in a limited geographical area, such as a room, an apartment or a building. Currently, most LANs are based on Wi-Fi or Ethernet transmission.

All network traffic on a LAN stays within the network. It doesn't communicate with the wider internet.

You should get better and faster connections with a LAN than with a WAN (Wide Area Network).

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Top level domain/domain suffix for private network?

At our office, we have a local area network with a purely internal DNS setup, on which clients all named as whatever.lan. I also have a VMware environment, and on the virtual-machine-only network, I name the virtual machines whatever.vm. Currently,…
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What should I pay attention to when I'm buying a network switch?

Since I'm not a hardware expert, I don't know what features make a network switch a good network switch. What should I pay attention, when I'm comparing the different models from different vendors?
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How to route different traffic thru different network interfaces (in Windows)

I've searched for details on how to do this but I've been unsuccessful - I wondered if someone could offer up some advice. So, let's say I have 2 network cards (LAN and 3G in my instance), both assigned dynamic IP addresses. The LAN interface is my…
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Duplicate MAC address on the same LAN possible?

Let's say someone is on the same network as me and spoofs their MAC address to match mine: Is this possible? Can two or more clients with the same MAC address be on the same network at the same time and stay consistently connected? When this…
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Per-user hosts file

Is there a way to define host aliases (like in /etc/hosts) on a per user basis, i.e. in a file /home/user/.hosts ? My primary objective is to easily share host aliases via rsync between the machines in my small lan. Since there is no machine that…
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Load balancing & NAT-ing multiple ISP connections on Linux

I have two internet connections from two different ISPs and I need to balance the traffic originating to and from my network between the two ISPs. I am using Debian GNU/Linux. My set-up is like this - eth0 (192.168.0.0/24) -- Local network eth1…
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Building a LAN on in the woods

A very long time ago, I had to build a LAN for a bunch of laptops, in a couple of tents. We ended up bringing a bunch of generators, stringing about 2 miles of networking and power cables, and generally having very little fun - mostly trying to keep…
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How much electricity is required to power 20 'average' computers on a LAN?

i trying to see how much electricity is required to power 'x' number of computers. I know it's a vague thing because some computers draw more than others (eg. diff chipsets, HDD, vid cards, PSU's, etc). So, lets just assume is a mum-and-dad Dell…
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Linux router: ping doesn't route back

I have a Debian box which I'm trying to set up as a router and an Ubuntu box which I'm using as a client. My problem is that when the Ubuntu client tries to ping a server on the Internet, all the packets are lost (though, as you can see below, they…
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IPSec for LAN traffic: Basic considerations?

This is a follow-up to my Encrypting absolutely everything... question. Important: This is not about the more usual IPSec setup, where you want to encrypt traffic between two LANs. My basic goal is to encrypt all traffic within a small company's…
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Should a webserver in the DMZ be allowed to access MSSQL in the LAN?

This should be a very basic question and I tried to research it and couldn't find a solid answer. Say you have a web server in the DMZ and a MSSQL server in the LAN. IMO, and what I've always assumed to be correct, is that the web server in the DMZ…
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Captive portal popups: the definitive guide

I'm manually implementing a WiFi captive portal. I've got everything pretty much working BUT a single hitch: i want everyone to see their mobile OSs' (or computer OSs') captive portal popup for a flawless experience. Since each one of them has its…
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Prevent administrative users from assigning duplicate static IPs to their workstations

How can I prevent a user that is an administrator on their local machine from manually assigning an IP to their network adapter that is in use on a server? Some users have done this, and it's caused duplicate IP issues that have taken nodes in…
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Routing WIFI and LAN for specific traffic

I have two network devices aboard my macbook pro: WIFI (en1): Used for general traffic. Connects to an ip of 192.168.19.* via DHCP LAN (en0): Used for specific traffic. Connects to an ip of 192.168.2.10 as a static IP. Does not connect to a router,…
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How to scan ipv6 enabled hosts on my LAN?

I want to discover all my neighbors who enabled ipv6 protocol and still alive. I tried ip -6 neighbor show but it shows nothing. Can someone recommend a tool and show some examples? Thanks.
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