Top "Networking" questions

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How to provide user name and password when connecting to a network share

When connecting to a network share for which the current user (in my case, a network enabled service user) has …

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What is the largest Safe UDP Packet Size on the Internet

I've read a number of articles about UDP packet sizes but have been unable to come to a conclusion on …

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How to validate IP address in Python?

What's the best way to validate that an IP entered by the user is valid? It comes in as a …

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close vs shutdown socket?

In C, I understood that if we close a socket, it means the socket will be destroyed and can be …

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Comparison of Android Web Service and Networking libraries: OKHTTP, Retrofit and Volley

Two-part question from an iOS developer learning Android, working on an Android project that will make a variety of requests …

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Checking host availability by using ping in bash scripts

I want to write a script, that would keep checking if any of the devices in network, that should be …

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How can I kill whatever process is using port 8080 so that I can vagrant up?

On MacOSX, I'm using Packer to build a Vagrant box so I need to continually bring it up and tear …

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How do I find out which computer is the domain controller in Windows programmatically?

I am looking for a way to determine what the Name/IP Address of the domain controller is for a …

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Is it possible to disable the network in iOS Simulator?

I am trying to debug some inconsistent behaviour I am seeing in an application that gets its primary data from …

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UDP vs TCP, how much faster is it?

For general protocol message exchange, which can tolerate some packet loss. How much more efficient is UDP over TCP?

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