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A Network Interface Card is a computer component which connects to a physical network in order to send and receive data.

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gigabit network card comparison

I'm shopping a dell machine and wanted to know what the experts thought about the value aded by getting an upgraded NIC. I've got cat6 throughout network and gigabit routers. On-Board Single Gigabit Network Adapter [Included in Price] Intel® PRO…
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Two NIC card with same mac address

Yes its very strange but I have got two server having same H/W MAC address. The issue which I am facing is again very strange. 1st Server is normal windows server. 2nd Server is running KVM on Cenots. Have provisioned 4 Virtual Machine on this…
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Running an EC2 server on Ubuntu with 2 simultaneous network interfaces

I have found similar questions relating to this issue but none matching my situation and none of the advice has helped me get this running. I have a 64bit Ubuntu server from the default AMI running in EC2. This has 2 network instances, each with 2…
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Storage Network Stops Transmitting Traffic

I have a troublesome issue. I have a 10Gb storage network serving a VMWare vSphere 5.1 environment. Storage: TrueNAS(NFS) with a Chelseio T320 10Gb Nic Storage: Dell PowerVault MD3600i(iSCSI) Network: XSM7224S 10gb Switch VMWare Hardware: Three…
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Need to configure 2008 server with 2 NICs on different subnets

I am working on an application that requires a 2008 server to have 2 NICs for security purposes. NIC 1 will be connected to the customer's enterprise network with a static IP and is routable. It needs to be able to communicate with other…
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FreeBSD Nic Setup - Dual NICs with lagg

I have a server running FreeBSD 9.0. It has two NICs using the igb network drivers. I was given a range of IPs, for example's sake I'm just going to make up some IP addresses, so let's say 192.168.0.24/29 with a broadcast ip of 192.168.0.31. The…
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Email flow issues when additional NICs are activated in Exchange 2007

I am currently working in an Exchange 2007 Environment which is quite basic - an EdgeSync Server and an CASHUB. Both of which have two NICS, ostensibly for an internal and external interface in the case of the Edgesync server and for the CASHUB to…
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Two NIC cards with the same metric - Internet traffic going out the wrong one

I have two NIC cards in my computer - one is connected to our corporate network and the Internet, the other is connected to a private LAN through a Linksys WRT54G. Both cards use DHCP. This was never an issue with Windows XP, but with Windows Vista…
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VMWare hypervisor with only 1 network card?

VMWare hypervisor minimum requirements states that the minimum network requirements is: one NIC, plus one for Management interface (source: http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere-hypervisor/requirements.html) It used to…
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How do I rename a NIC: eth2 -> eth1

I've installed a new NIC. It shows up as eth2. I'd like it to be eth1. How I can do this?
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Cannot browse HTTP to a load balanced VIP from w2k8 boxes, but can get to it from w2k3

I have a strange problem and am looking for suggestions. The environment: several VLANs on the same switch, that all talk to each other via the ASA using hairpin routing: VLAN 500 - Windows 2003 servers with single NIC each VLAN 501 - Windows 2008…
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2008 Server 2 NICS Unable to maintain routing

I have two Windows 2008 Servers. One is a domain controller and the other is a member of the domain. The domain member machine has 2 NICs, one for internet facing traffic and the other for private domain traffic. This machine has worked for quite…
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bonding NICs w/o switch

(This may not be possible, but I thought I'd ask just in case it is, as it will save a considerable amount of cash.) I'm building cluster of sorts that has one shared storage unit and two computing units. I'd wondering if it is possible to bond two…
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Transmit rate decreases when using both Intel NIC 10G ports

I'm using the Intel 82599EB 10G NIC on a server running RHEL6. I ran a program where packets are generated at high rates. The NIC was previously installed on another PC where I was able to generate traffic at 8-9Gbps on each port concurrently. On…
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Disable (or switch off) a network interface on windows but keep the "plug and play"

I'm looking for a good workaround to do this on Windows 7 and Windows XP: Disable or make ineffective the network interface (ETH, WIFI, any NIC). If the user connect his ETH cable, the network interface enable again. Important Notes to take…
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