I'm trying to use NETSH PORTPROXY command to forward packets sent to my XP PC (IP 192.168.0.10) on port 8001 to port 80 (I've a XAMPP Apache server listening to port 80). I issued the following: ...

I would like to ping one vmware guest from another one. Both are Windows XP and use NAT. I set IP manually for VMnet8 to 192.168.18.1. (no using Obtain IP address automatically). Also I'm not able ...

A couple of weeks ago, WSL suddenly could not reach any IP addresses nor resolve any domains. Even internal network IPs are not reachable. >lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Ubuntu Descriptio...

Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) is a Microsoft tech for service discovery based on multicast DNS. Is it compatible with Bonjour/Zeroconf? If so, where's the API? The service discovery,...

I have an application that I wish to use over windows. I am using AF_UNIX family un windows. I wish to know that AF_UNIX family is available in windows. If not then is there any alternate to AF_UNI...

I know I can use netsh advfirewall firewall add rule or wf.msc to create new firewall rules; but when I create a rule this way, it will NOT have a groupName and thus I can't manage multiple rules a...

I have a VPN client that works fine for sending unicast UDP packets over the VPN pipe but does not do that for multicast IP (UDP) packets (OpenVPN). So I thought I could write this little shim that...

I have a block of code that needs to open and read a lot of small text files from a NAS server using UNC paths. This code is part of a module that was originally written in C++ but is now being con...

We are experiencing a problem where our incoming client socket connections to our socket server are being denied when a relatively small number of nodes (16 to 24, but we will need to handle more i...