I want to block interconnections of devices in my network i.e in LAN one device should not be able to ping another device. I think for this I have to configure my router but i dont know the details.
For blocking interconnection of devices .
A feature is there in router(depend on router company) called Client Isolation .
find this feature probably present under wireless settings.
Just enable it .
BTW which router you are using.
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There may be one or the other professional in the topic of TCP connections in iOS.
The user of my app can configure and connect a network device in the app. To connect the device, I want to show the user a list of available devices. However, I would only like to display devices with a specific port there.
I really hope that someone can help me.
Thanks!
I need to create a wireless network with no Internet access with a Pi, because I need to communicate to it with an Android smartphone and a laptop, but being the RPi the highest step in the network hierarchy.
I've found -and tried- that I can do an adhoc network, but I am unable to connect to it with the smartphone. The other alternative is creating a Wi-Fi hotspot, with no NAT, but I don't really have a deep knowledge on networks so I'm really lost in which IP adresses I have to set.
I've followed this tutorial, and found it really useful. Could anyone tell me what should I modify from it to make it only local -apart from not doing the NAT?
The Rapsberry Pi 3 has built in Wi-Fi that can serve as an access point. Based on my experience, with the Pi acting as an access point, you should be able to connect to any device, be it Android or not.
The Pi will act as access point and serve as a DHCP daemon, assigning and handling IP addresses to any devices that connect to it. This will be a standalone network and will not be able to share an Internet connection unless you bridge it. Follow this tutorial up until the Internet sharing part:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/access-point.md
Also, it would be better to ask this in the Raspberry Pi stack exchange.
Maybe this is a stupid question but..
Are Wi-Fi Direct and Wi-Fi P2P the same thing?
And I mean, the EXACTLY same thing?
I'm getting really confused with this two.
Wifi Direct is a technology for peer to peer connections and is very different from wifi. Wi-Fi Direct, initially called Wi-Fi P2P, is a Wi-Fi standard enabling devices to easily connect with each other without requiring a wireless access point.It is usable for everything from internet browsing to file transfer
Wifi Direct is not same as wifi . On Jelly Bean and above, when you try to use the WifiP2pManager API, WiFi-Direct is automatically enabled (as long as WiFi is on). Wifi can be switched on by calling:
WifiManager wifiManager = (WifiManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE); wifiManager.setWifiEnabled(true);
For ICS refer to this Can I turn on WiFi-Direct from code? on Android API-14 (ICS)
This is the main reason to get confused between the two.
I am trying to do a little experiment and I'm getting pretty odd results that I can't explain. I came to my University with my friend, we both brought our laptops and we connected to the same WiFi. But from some reason, our computers couldn't communicate with each other. For example, I couldn't ping him, and I when I did an ARP Scan to find all the hosts on the LAN I didn't find him. He did the same. He couldn't ping me and he didn't find my laptop when he did an ARP scan. Yet, there were many other devices on the LAN that both of us could ping and that we both found in our ARP scan. The University may be big, but we sat just next to each other.
I know that the WiFi on the university may be complex, but yet I have no explanations of what is happening. We sit next to each other, connect to the same WiFi(same Access Point MAC), we both see many same devices in our LAN, yet we can't see each other. Anyone has any idea of what may be happening? Why can't we see/ping each other while we are on the same LAN?
Thanks! :)
The wireless access point probably has a security setting of "Wireless Isolation Within SSID" turned on. This function does exactly what you describe. It allows all authenticated users to see machines on the LAN, but not other wireless machines on the same access point.
Reconfigure your router and make some settings like this
LAN DHCP=Enable
Wireless Authentication type=WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK
Encryption=AES
After this setting delete all Wireless network of router listed in your PC. And than connect, It will works. you can ping your both PC together.
Because you are connected to an infrastructure mode access point (99% of APs), in order to send packets to another device your laptop sends the packet to the AP (to the distribution system), and then the AP sends the packet to your friend (from the distribution system). You cannot connect 'directly' to your friend.
The AP can direct whether or not wireless clients can see each other - depending on the manufacturer this can be implemented in many different ways. You could talk to your system administrator about why/how this policy works.
I have ip addresses of two different iOS Devices which are connected to Internet. Now, I want to establish a peer-to-peer connection between them.
I had done this locally with Wifi and it worked properly. But I dont know how to establish this connection with an IP address. I want that I can connect them from anywhere, so I need to connect via Ip address. Also, is this possible without developing any server? Please help. Thanks.
I couldn't find any exact solution for this problem but one approach could be you can have two ios devices connected with a network having same public IP.
So indirectly both ios devices will be connected to the same network.
What you had done with wifi is probably an Ad-Hoc connection. Ad-Hoc is when you connect 2 wifi devices without any Access Point in the between.
You do not have to do that on the Internet, your devices are already connected to a network. What you need to do is to find out what their IP addresses are and provide them to eachother.
In case your iOS devices are NATed behind a router, you must forward the port which you want to use from the router to the iOS device.
Here are guides for port forwarding for all the existing routers: http://portforward.com/