Networking

Advanced Networking in Linux: VLANs, Bonding, and Bridging

Published: June 21, 2024 Reading Time: 11 min

Linux networking becomes much easier to reason about when you treat interfaces as layers. A physical NIC can become part of a bond. A VLAN interface can sit on top of that bond. A bridge can sit on top of the VLAN. The host’s IP address belongs on whichever layer represents the host on that network. This post focuses on three building blocks that often appear together on servers, virtualization hosts, routers, and lab machines: ...

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Google Chrome in Ubuntu keeps detecting network change

Published: July 6, 2017 Reading Time: 1 min

Recently I had problem with my Ubuntu, Whenever I tried to open a website my Chromium told me that a Network Change has been detected and after 1-2 reload that sites would load and sometimes failed to load fully. After looking up for that problem, I found out many other people had same problem and it has something to do with “avahi-daemon”. Solution According to the links I found in Ubuntu forums, this problem comes from IPv6 in Ubuntu and disabling that service will fix it, I tried it and it worked: ...

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