This article shows you some useful usage examples for netcat. Netcat is known as the TCP/IP swiss army knife. From the netcat man page: netcat is a simple unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable back-end tool that [...]

Mostly you just need to disable IPv6 protocol. But in some case, you do not need it at all or it may increase browsing speed. Linux has Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) enabled. By default, almost all distros enable it. Red Hat and similar ones (like Fedora and CentOS) Open your modprob.conf file [...]

What is a VLAN A VLAN is a virtual LAN, it is a broadcast domain created by switches. Normally, it is a router creating that broadcast domain. With VLAN’s, a switch can create the broadcast domain. This works by, you, the administrator, putting some switch ports in a VLAN other than 1, the default [...]