Questions tagged [broadcast]

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Transform a UDP unicast packet into a broadcast?

We need to wake-up some computers on our internal LAN, from the Internet. We have a somewhat closed router, with very few ways to configure it. I'd like to use netfilter (iptables) to do this because it doesn't involve a daemon or similar, but other…
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How to prevent kernel or any broadcast messages from flooding the TTYs?

Because of some hot-plugging issue, similar to what talked of here, the TTY displays show a continuous stream of messages (which are also logged in the /var/log directory). Every text I key in flows away visually, but it does take the inputs (I can…
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Broadcast messages don't appear on gnome-terminal, but appear on xterm

I'm curious about the behavior of broadcast messages by $ sudo wall myfile the message from myfile appears on all /dev/ttyN devices (the ones to which I can switch by pressing Ctrl+Alt+fN), it also appears on the xterm windows I have opened, but it…
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Changing shutdown broadcast message

Is it possible to change the default message broadcasted by shutdown to something else?
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Why isn't my application receiving broadcast packets?

I have written a Qt application that listens for UDP broadcast packets on the network interface p2p1. I have installed the application in Fedora 17 i386 in a VirtualBox VM. For some reason, the application is not receiving any broadcast packets that…
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Responses from broadcast 255.255.255.255

On one particular box, i cannot get responses to broadcasted messages to (255.255.255.255). For example Sending DHCPDISCOVER DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 And see even responses from DHCP server on this network DHCPOFFER from…
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Send large file to multiple machines on lan with slow network cards

I have a large file(s) (say 10GB) that I want to transfer from one machine to many (say 50) identical machines connected to LAN. It makes sense to me that transfering like this: /--> 4 --- / 1 -----> 2 -----> 5 --- \ …
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Capture and broadcast video from web cam

I have server on Debian 6, without Desktop Environment and I have simple web camera. Web camera is defined like /dev/video0, so I can use cat /dev/video0 > ~/photo to get image from it (of course this is not correct way :)) I want to capture,…
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UDP Multicast not seen on PiZero with Raspbian

Looking for help troubleshooting my missing UDP Multicasts. Some background... So I finally got an Amazon Echo and was playing with fauxmo on my PiZero to see if Alexa could find my device, but she couldn't. :( I fired up Wireshark (on my…
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How do I send a notification to all active shells, like shutdown does?

You know, I was just there, doing my things, when suddenly a terrible Broadcast message appeared! fiatjaf@mises ~> sl fiatjaf@mises ~> ls dotfiles/ urxvt vim/ vimrc fiatjaf@mises ~> cowsay good morning ______________ < good morning > …
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Share/Stream live video on LAN network - raspberry

As in the question, I need to share a video in lan by broadcasting. From server, I've tried with: avconv -i video.mov -c:v libx264 -f mpegts udp://[destinationIP]:1234 From client I can play video with: omxplayer udp://serverIP:1234 But this…
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How does the Linux 3.10.105 kernel handle Ethernet broadcast storms?

In my embedded Linux device I want to find the source of Ethernet broadcast storm and flash the led once I detected the ethernet broadcast storm. Does Linux kernel handle broadcast storms? Is there any kernel device driver API's that I can use to…
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How to disable broadcasting on an IP-less Linux NIC

Linux system with two NICs. eth0 connected to Co. LAN. DHCP configured. It is the main network connection. eth1 point-to-point connected to a network analyzer. No IP on this interface. Linux application sending L2 packets on eth1. The network…
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How to install Liquidsoap & Airtime on CentOS 6.5?

That's the question, I already try some tutorials but I don't get any one to works What repositories are needed? Is there any repo than I can add than have it to install it directly? Is there any way to avoid using Debian Box? I want to keep the…
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Broadcast or send machine readable code to ssh clients

Here's an interesting situation. I have: A Linux box that is a motion sensor and can execute command line commands upon receiving a motion event (see the Linux motion app). Another Linux box that (I would like to) dedicated to additional processing…
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