A gateway is a network point that acts as an entry way to another network.

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How to reconnect automatically to a wireless gateway connection that expires after some time?

I would like to connect to the Wi-Fi gateway of my university campus as soon as it stops using the command line and making a script. This connection can be established by entering the following ...
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Ubuntu as a Router/Gateway - Unable to access WAN

I am currently trying to set up a home router using a machine running Ubuntu 12.04. The machine has two ethernet ports. eth0 is LAN and eth1 is WAN. I have set eth0 to a static ip and have eth1 ...
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How website name get resolved?

I'm using Internet via a usb datacard on Ubuntu 12.04. I never configure domain name server. My question is how website name get resolved? Is there a inbuilt domain name server in system? if not ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 indicator-sound shows as mute (three hyphens

I kind of have a problem. I installed Ubuntu 12.10 and my sound seems to be fine. I can play videos etc. The trouble I have is the indicator-sound applet shows as a speaker with three hyphens as if ...
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help with configuring gateway - (newbe)

I'm trying to setup a gateway/firewall for our INTERNET site. my system properties are : Ubuntu 12.04 I've install webmin 1.620 i have 2 nic (eth0,eth1) eth0 will be connected to the Internet and ...
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Cannot set default gateway to specific LAN

Recently, I am trying to add a default gateway to my ubuntu machine to be able to send/receive packets from an another LAN through the router. However, everything I do the result is the following: ...
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How can I fix networking after upgrading a Hyper-V instance?

I upgraded Ubuntu from 10.10 to 11.04 on a Hyper-V virtual server. All seemed to go well except now I have no network capabilities. I can ping the local host but not the gateway. I have been all over ...
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Identical default gateway with different metric (0 and 100) Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop

I have recently started to configure my network using /etc/network/interfaces for a static IP address. For this I have added the following lines into the file: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto ...
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Client Login before accessing the internet

I wanted to create an internet gateway server where the client connecting to my network must enter a username and password, where the server checks if username and password is correct before they can ...
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Second NIC on dual homed server not working

I'm trying to set up a server with two IP addresses on different connections. The first NIC works fine (since I removed the gateway from the second), but I can't ping out or to the second NIC. ...
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Prioritizing WLAN over LAN connection

I'm using my LAN connection to work with a peripheral device, and I would like to use my WLAN connection for internet access. The problem is that Ubuntu considers LAN connection as priority, and ...
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No ethernet or mouse on gateway lx4200

My father has a Gateway LX4200-01e and i can't get the mouse to work. As a result the computer is only usable with windows 7...everything work perfectly on the live-cd via USB...but once installed i ...
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ubuntu 12.04 dhcp gateway server

I need a little help. I will explain this the best I can so people don't have to ask extra questions Essentially, I have a dell poweredge 2650, with 2 nics. eth0 goes to my cable modem, while eth1 ...
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Using Ubuntu as a gateway for monitoring and possibly IPS IDS within Active Directory

Ok, I've searched for days, maybe you can point me in the right direction. I have an MPLS scenario with a shared gateway in a multi-domain M$FT AD environment. On the inside of the MPLS all of the ...
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DHCP server with multiple interfaces on ubuntu, destroys default gateway

I use Ubuntu, and I have many interfaces. eth0, which is my internet connection, and it gets its info from a DHCP-server totally outisde of my control. I then have eth1,eth2,eth3 and eth4 which I ...
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Direct Routing with ARP or IPTables

I have a default gateway on my network with a Ubuntu/iptables configuration, with IP address 192.168.1.254. Then there is another gateway on my local network for one specific subnet, say 172.0.0.0/24, ...
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Running 12.04 as a gateway - resolvconf, dhclient and dnsmasq integration

I have a gateway server which is set up originally with Ubuntu desktop 12.04 - perhaps a mistake, I don't know, something to bear in mind. I ripped out network-manager and now want to get ...
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How do I set up user level restrictions on a gateway?

I am aware that Ubuntu Server can be used as a gateway to allow Internet connection to a LAN. Then we use IP tables or other firewall settings to restrict (for example), certain websites from being ...
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Is there a way to connect to a local pc via a gateway without having the gateway shine through?

When I'm at work I can use nautilus to navigate files on other computers of the local network comfortably. Nautilus mounts the other computers file systems using ssh (sftp via gvfs). However when I'm ...
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define static routes at boot

I'm running Ubuntu desktop 10.04 and on every boot the machine cannot be accessed from outside the LAN. after running sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1 everything works as expected. Is there any ...