I wanted to experiment with sniffing data on the network. Of course, my own network. This was not a creepy sniffing of my neighbours’ network. I was keen in converting my Ubuntu VM into a router VM. Then I can redirect all traffic from ‘client’ VM via the ‘router’ VM on which the sniffer is […]
Firewall! What a high sounding word! Means high protection & a safe cocoon for all the newbies. Thats exactly what I did setup in my laptop: A firewall! A personalized firewall. My use cases & reasons were very simple. Every once in a while, I expose my laptop to unsafe open Internet like the cafes, […]
The biggest problem I found was not identifying all the network interfaces available but the ones that are up. For instance, the 2 quickest way to identify all the available network interfaces are: ip link $> ip link show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd […]
Oh, this kinda irritated me. I wanted to know this information for my project and I kept forgetting the actual value at the time of need. So wanted to get this clear in my head right now. This is straight forward and simple; we just need to check the network connection details. So, how do […]