Direct Broadcast Address (DBA)

With directed broadcast, all recipients are always addressed within the target network. A combination of the number of the target network and the setting of all host bits to 1 produces the broadcast address in this case. If the destination is not located in its own (sub-) network, a router forwards the data packet. Read More …

Ubuntu – What is netplan?

Since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has switched to Netplan for configuring network interfaces. Netplan is based on YAML based configuration system that makes configuration process very simple. Using netplan gives a central location to describe simple to complex networking configurations that function from Desktop to Server and from Cloud to IoT environments. Read More …

Error “The RPC server is unavailable” – Part 2

Remote Procedure Call (RPC) is an inter-process communication technique to allow client and server software to communicate on a network. The RPC protocol is based on a client/server model. The client makes a procedure call that appears to be local but is actually run on a remote computer. Read More …

Nginx – Password Protect Web Directories

Managers of web projects often need to protect their work one way or another. Often people ask how to password protect their website while it is still in development. On an Apache web server, it’s possible to password protect a directory using .htaccess and .htpasswd files. However, .htaccess files are not supported on Nginx. Read More …

Ubuntu 18.04 – Restart network

Here are shown several ways how to restart networking from command line as well as from Graphical User Interface (GUI) on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver distribution. Read More …