Questions tagged [networking]
Networking is associated with creating and managing networks as well as adding network connectivity to a (set of) programs.
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msgsnd erro: invalid argument for IPC program [closed]
These are my client and server codes for message queue. The required function is supposed to be quite simple, client sends a number to the server, which the server receives and then sends back a sort ...
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A common class for Client and Server [closed]
I have written this code to use TcpClient both from a client program and a server program.
Can you review this source code?
Kindly, take a close look at ...
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python network test application
I am working to a python application for some operational test on a Arista brand Network (more info here: https://gitlab.com/networkAutomation/pyateos)
I am the only one doing coding in my team so I ...
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Serializable and extensible API implementing the Command Design Pattern
I am currently trying to implement an extensible way to create commands that can be sent to some type of executor. In my case, there would be two of them (server and client). As I posted here, I had a ...
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Asynchronous TCP network server with a packet system
So I'm writing a game emulator and would like some advice after finishing the networking. It is designed to accept multiple connections, and process messages from all of them.
Here is just a brief ...
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Java implementing task on another thread with javascript-like promise resolve-reject
Background:
I have a TCP online multiplayer game server, which the player requests to log-in. However, the game server does not handle the authentication part of the login process, instead, it uses ...
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ICMP ping all hosts in a range
I'm creating my own little toolbox for pinging IP interfaces (for the test, only in localhost). In the future I'm thinking of piping the output to a text file. But I'd like to focus on improving the ...
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Auto re-connecting to a VPN on OS X and pointing Squid accordingly
We need to tunnel certain applications over a VPN at work. Ideally we would use a dedicated firewall/network appliance for this but the only permanent infrastructure we have are Mac Pro's running ...
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Token Bucket context manager for rate limiting async calls
I've written a class that implements something akin to the token bucket algorithm so that I may rate limit aysnc HTTP requests made from my application.
The code works but I'm still not sure if it ...
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Network connection monitor
I was recently in need of a class that checks if a computer has a valid internet connection, so I wrote one; however, I feel that there is a better way to do so and I just don't have the knowledge ...
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Network programming - asynchronous, single-threaded, nickname-only chat server
I am starting to learn network programming. I have implemented a very simple chat server based upon TCP, where the users only need to provide username.
The assumption is that the server makes use of ...
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Streaming Messages to multiple Clients
I wrote a server-client application in Python where the server sends a never-ending stream of messages to connecting clients.
I was in need for such an architecture since I want to retrieve and ...
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Simple subnet calculator and parser
I have started to learn Java for the past 20 days with no prior coding/comp science experience.
My brother gave me an idea to make a subnet calc/ping tool to enhance my knowledge and mentored through ...
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Send / receive wrapper for System.Net.Sockets - follow-up
I recently posted a question about improving thread and socket safety in my NetworkEndpoint class. previous post
I have implemented the changes suggested in the answer I got there. When I asked for a ...
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Send / receive wrapper for System.Net.Sockets
The following NetworkEndpoint class serves as a simple send / receive interface for either side of a network connection (client or server) when provided with a ...
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Small socket based packet Library
I'm currently writing a python script which needs some simple networking. After some playing around with sockets, this emerged, but as this is my first foray into sockets I'd really like a second ...
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Java objects for a network sniffer program
I'm working on a network sniffer program, whose structure uses 3 main classes:
Frame Class - One per monitored frame, holds reference to all the other sub frames
Parse Class - Holds the hex value of ...
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Enum for handling network request errors in Swift
I'm working on a new API written in Swift 5 and I wanted to play with the new Result. I wanted to know what you guys think about this syntax:
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API for multiple printer attributes [closed]
I have network printers which have different attributes (e.g. supported network protocols, languages, status, print modes).
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Script to get available IP automatically
Recently I made a script to get available IP automatically. I was woundering if anyone can give me tips on how to make this code look better, preferably in a class and OOP. I'm gonna show the code to ...
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Python scanner for the first free port in a range
I have a distributed application (YARN), which runs a WebApp.
This application use a default port to start (8008), before I start I need to check if port is in use.
A container may run in the same ...
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Page download with reattempts in Scala
I wrote the following code to deal with possible network problems.
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Web server using syscalls in Go
I'm new to Go and wanted to implement a web server using system calls to get a better feel for how everything works.
I'm looking for feedback on idiomatic go especially error handling and using ...
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C# Async/Await networking server
I made a simple async networking server and I'd like to get some input on the code, whether things can be done better and whether the code is stable (able to hold more than 1000 connections without ...
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dynwg: A DynDNS watchdog for WireGuard via systemd-networkd
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I'm using WireGuard as a VPN solution to connect a remote client permanently to my home server.
Unfortunately due to Consumer DSL-related IP address changes, the client loses the connection ...
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TCP client and server API
I made a server and client API for TCP connection. It is intended to shorten the work you need to do to prepare the server and client.
It's separated into 3 projects - ...
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Non-blocking TCP and UDP in Unity3D Game Engine
I would like constructive criticism of a networking plugin I've written for Unity 3D. The use-case of the code is for people in "creative coding," where simple TCP and UDP messages are used for ...
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Looping through multiple regex efficiently
I'm writing a program that adds all network interfaces with multiple parameters to a list.
I have written the following code, which should work out of the box on any Linux system with Python and ...
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C++ game server
I'm writing a server for an MMO game using boost::asio. I would like to know, are there any design or other issues in my code? And what should I improve in it? Thanks in advance.
BaseServer.h:
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Add and enable/disable Windows Firewall rules with Python
I have this following module using for adding and enabling/disabling Windows Firewall rules using Python.
I currently use subprocess.call to execute the ...
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Java League of Legends ping checker
I'm still a freshman and this one of my first projects I made using Java and Swing.
The program is a simple League of Legends multi-threaded ping checker that pings the server 10 times to get an ...
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Batch file that checks for wifi connection - reconnects if no internet
There is a remote Windows PC that has access to "landline" unmetered WiFi and there is a Verizon 4G LTE MiFi (metered WiFi) as backup. This script checks to see if the PC is connected to any WiFi, ...
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CloudFlare Dynamic DNS Update Script in Python 3
I have a computer that roams, but needs to have an FQDN attached to it for certain reasons such as email system integrations or testing email via a testing SMTP server that requires valid FQDNs and ...
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PyCat: a netcat implementation in Python3.x v2
This is a follow up question from this question
Intro
netcat is an all-round tool used with many applicable features
My last try felt a bit rushed, and should've improved before posting here.
But ...
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PyCat A small implementation of netcat in Python3.x
Intro
netcat is an all-round tool used with many applicable features
I was playing around with sockets and openssl, and decided I should build my own.
It works as expected, but my code feels a bit ...
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Python 3 multi-threaded pinger
My goal: I want to ping every single IPv4 address and record whether or not they responded.
The way I have it set up is every IP address corresponds to an index. For example ...
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Traceroute implementation in Rust
I made this simple traceroute implementation using the libpnet library, which sends ICMP echo probes with an increasing time-to-...
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Wrap location API in coroutines
In my app I need to query location and scan wifi periodically. To conserve power I need to change the rate dynamically, depending on the distance to the target. Also I want to wait for both ...
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Task based GameObject recorder for networked game
I've recently been dipping my toes in to async code so I'm not 100% sure if there's a better way to do this, or if I'm going to run into problems down the road.
I plan on using the following class in ...
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Unity Multiplayer Authoritarian Client-Server
I have created a client-server system which handles multiplayer for a game I've been making with Unity. Problem is, it feels very clunky and complex and I want to know how the design could be ...
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IP Scanning program Python 3
This is the code I made to scan IP addresses. I am new to python and just want to learn how I can optimize it. I know the subprocess is slower than others to IP scanning but if there is a way to make ...
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Bash script to change network interface parameters/configuration and start virtual machines
On my Arch Linux system I have created a script that should do the following on system startup:
detect all network interfaces
check if physical interfaces are up
check if bridge interfaces are up
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Simple port scanner in Python 3
I wrote a simple python port scanner today and I would like to get some advice on how to improve on the code in different ways.
I am aware that I can implement threading to reduce runtime but I won't ...
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Peertable - an infrastructural peer-to-peer networking library
From the README:
Welcome to Peertable! This project is an infrastructural peer-to-peer
networking library for Python 3. You can also use it in standalone
mode, although that is for little use ...
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Java Messenger data transmission
This is a very simple concern, could somebody take a look at a few lines of my code? I'm writing a simple Java multi-user messenger, it is structured in a desktop client with a Swing GUI, a java ...
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Network Interface Object
I wrote a Network... thing (not really telnet); and it's pretty simple. No options, just straight I/O. It seems programs get so bloated easily.
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Measure website home page total network size in bytes
We have a requirement to check the size of some of our website home pages, in MB. This is to ensure that they are not growing too large, and that large images haven't been uploaded. I couldn't find ...
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Mutex helper for interprocess sychronization of accessing a network drive
I have two windows services working in parallel. Each of them is using a network drive that is connected and disconected dynamically by each one as required. They do it by executing ...
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Simple overlapped IO single threaded client
I wanted to make a single threaded network client that only uses a single connection to a server. IOCP seems like overkill but overlapped IO with event notification I think is the most performant of ...
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Event Based TCP Library
A while ago, I wanted to make a multiplayer game, so I wrote some TCPClient and TCPListener code, and it worked, but it was ...
