Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘networking’

How to Scan a Computer for Open Ports

There are a bunch of GUI utilities for conducting port scans, but I prefer to work from a command line shell. 
In the past, I’ve used a custom script for scanning a machine for open ports from the command line, but I recently needed to get a little more information from a scan than my [...]

How to use your Netgear (or Linksys, or D-Link) wireless router as a Hub

Ok, here’s the deal:
I have 2 wireless routers, a Cisco and a Netgear.
The house’s primary router, a DD-WRT-based Cisco, is in my first-floor office. Unfortunately, the signal isn’t strong enough to make it to the third floor of my house.
I wanted to run a wire to the third floor of [...]

  

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