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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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Distribute IP packets accross different NIC queues with MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts)

NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet NIC supports MSI feature (Message Signaled Interrupts) and it has 8 queues. Each queue has its own Interrupt handler in /proc/interrupts. What I am trying to accomplish is to tell NIC which packets should go to…
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Server statistics (processor usage and bandwidth usage)

How can I find out how much of a load my webserver is under? I tried top but I don't know how to interpret the information it's showing me for CPU. While top may give me the CPU usage I also need to find out the bandwidth (load on the NIC) to see…
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Kickstarting VMWare ESX 4.1 (Error: No NIC with name bootif)

I'm having an issue kickstarting an installation of VMWaare ESX Classic 4.1. I've stripped down my kickstart a bit to just: accepteula keyboard us auth clearpart --firstdisk --overwritevmfs url…
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Increase network bandwidth between 2 servers

Is it possible to increase the network bandwidth between 2 servers on Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 ? For example : Use 2 Gigabit NICs on each computer to have 2 Gigabits/sec between 2 machines ? (I know it's possible to load balance traffic…
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Consumer board for 4* commodity cluster in tetrahedral back-to-back GB-lan topology

I'm not very sure what consumer board to choose for such a configuration. Im planning to build one or more "Beowulf-like cluster" (starting with one for testing), one such cluster consists of four boxes (commodity Socket-1156 + i7/875K + 2x2GB 1333)…
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How should I set up multiple NICs for Hyper-V?

I have a PowerEdge server that has 1 management NIC and 4 other NICs. I have the management NIC set up so that I can access iDRAC and it works great. Now I'd like to set up Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V. Our network has two kinds of IP addresses. One is…
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Bonding NICs with Procurve 1400-24G switch

I was looking to bond two or three NICs together to increase throughput. Now, this should be straight forward if done computer to computer, but since there are 3 computers involved which require higher bandwidth, I was going to put them into a a HP…
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Setting up a VDSL router on OpenBSD & NIC with TCO support

this is my first question and I hope I do everything correct. Thanks for setting up serverfault - such a site was missing in the internet for a long time now. In the next few weeks I will get my VDSL 25 connection (at best it's 25 Mbit Download and…
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Hyper-V core NIC speeds and registry changes

On a Dell PE T610 I have Hyper-V core running, with 2 x Broadcom BCM5709C NetXtreme II GigE installed. I have noticed that copying large files 17GB for example, from a network physical server to the Hyper-V host local drive [not vm guest] is very…
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Hyper-v Core backup so slow across LAN

Our T610 server has 2 Gb NICs and a guest VHD thats 28GB in size. When I copied that VHD from our file server [Server 2003] to the local drive on hyper_v core it took over 3 hours. This concerns me as I wanted to move backups back out to the…
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Windows XP mode: externally configure NIC

We're internally running a lot of stuff on windows xp mode (While upgrading fully to Windows 7), and it is very often required for the people running the xp mode to change their NIC settings to access certain devices in different subnets. Currently…
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Attempts at NIC teaming on Server 2008 R2 with PRO/1000 MT

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1850 server and a gigabit switch that supports nic teaming (and was configured to do so). The server has a total of four Intel PRO/1000 MT ports, which also support teaming. But.. for some reason Intel does not actually have…
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Network card enabled but not working

I have a strange behavior on one of my windows2003/IIS6 servers. I have two network cards on it, let's call card A the card which connects the server with the internet, and let's call card B the card which connects the server with the intranet. The…
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Macs don't connect to wifi access point but PCs will

So, as a side project I'm going to try and figure out why the wifi APs in my building exhibit the following behavior: - They typically allow all types of computers to connect without issues - Sometimes Apples can't get an IP address but will still…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Network Setup

Some background: I'm very much new to networking in general, and virtualization in particular. I'm trying to set up a series of VMs as we are transitioning to a thin client setup. I have been supplied a limited number of static ip addresses. The…
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