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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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Ping out from a specific NIC

I have a server with dual NICs, both of which have IP addresses in the same subnet. How would I send a ping out over a particular (chosen) NIC ? Thanks .. KJ
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Create and bridge virtual network interfaces in Linux

I have a tool that replays traffic from a .pcap file and another tool that interprets that traffic. For testing purposes, I need to play traffic out one interface and have it come in another. Obviously I could simply attach a crossover cable…
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information about ethernet cards

I have few question and I don't find right answers. What's the maximum speed of an Ethernet cable (not a phone cable! the one that has 8 threads) About the Gigabit Ethernet Network Card: Is it just a technology name or can reach 1 GigaBit /…
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Sharing internet connection on Windows XP with 2 NIC's and seperate networks

This is the basic setup. The goal is to get Host 2 to use Host 1's second NIC to connect to the internet without using any special routing software or anything on Host 1. What I can do: Configure static routing tables for both Cisco-routers and…
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Network outage - Mapping, Checking network, BGP, Traceroute, RIPE

At first, I'm not able to name my question properly, so this will be adjusted I recently experienced an international network gap. Mean when some part of world wide network is unavailable. I'm able to find out using ping,traceroute,nmap tools where…
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setting up 2 subnets, Windows Clients (30 nodes), Linux Server, Samba, FOG

Its my first post on serverfault and my first time to setup this kind of network, so my apologies in advance if it is not well formed. I'm planning a small (education center) network that has about 20-30 windows Student PCs, tablets and employee…
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How to assign two IP addresses (one DHCP, one static) to a NIC using WMI?

Found question and great answer: WMI and adding Multiple IP Addresses? However this only explains how to add multiple static IP addresses. I am looking how to configure a dynamic (DHCP) and at least one static IP address on the same NIC. But only…
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Bonding/Teaming 2 NIC cards : pro and cons

I want to get your idea on bonding two NICS on a server that is connected to a single subnet with only one IP address in a Gigabit LAN enviroment. What is the pros and cons of having two teamed Gibit/s NIC card against having only one single NIC…
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How To Upgrade Network Driver To BNX2i

we have a server with a Broadcom NetExtreme II card which supports iSCSI offloading. According to the dell documentation, we need to be running the bnx2i driver to use the iSCSI offloading engine. We really want to enable offloading as this server…
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Disable PCIe device on Dell R610

I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 system sitting in a co-location facility. It has four onboard NICs and a 2-port PCIe NIC in one of the slots. I'm usually working with HP servers, so I have the ability to enable/disable PCI devices in the BIOS to…
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The PHY on eth0 keeps restarting. How can I keep it on?

This is probably a superuser.com question, but it isn't online yet. The PHY on my NIC is blinking on and off ridiculously, and it should always be on. I googled it and found no answers, just…
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Linux Ubuntu - Two NICs separate lan

I have this /etc/network/interfaces (IPs on eth1 are fake) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.2.15 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.2.255 gateway 10.0.2.2 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address…
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Precise Method of Failure Detection with Intel's Adapter Fault Tolerance NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2008 R2

What are the details of the method(s) that Intel Adapter Fault Tolerance (AFT) uses for the detection of failed links in Windows Server 2008 R2?
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NIC bandwidth usage graphing as percent (not kbps/mbps)

I would like to validate a certain thought with you guys. Assuming that: The device whose bandwidth I am measuring is an internal, Linux-based, router. If a NIC is configured to 100mbps, the network is at least 100mbps (that is, the NIC's speed…
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Are Multiple NIC Ports Needed for a Cross Connect at a Colocation?

If one is going to run a cross-connect in a data center colocation does that mean that it requires another physical network port in the machine being connected? For example if a machine in a data center has three separate cross connects to other…
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