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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Server 2012 R2 NIC Teaming with 4 NICs 2 switches
We have attempted to implement NIC teaming on our server that has 4 total NICs. There are 2 connections to each switch. I have a diagram to help explain:
Server NIC Layout
When we attempt to create a team with all four NICs, we have connection…

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How many NIC's in relation to processor cores?
I have server with four cores procesor (non HT) and two NIC's onboard.
Is it reasonable to add four additional NIC's (ie. Intel PRO/1000PT) or only two new NIC's will be enough (ie. Intel PCI-E D33025)? In other words – are there any relation…

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Setting up 2 NICs, 1 for Internet 1 for Phones
I have FreePBX setup and it has 2 NICs. I've been trying to configure it out so that:
eth0 will continue to be the one used for all the office phones and internal calls; and
eth1 is the new NIC that would be connected to the internet so that I…

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How can I configure each Windows user to have unique ip address
We have multiple Windows users on a single Windows 2008 R2 server (Standard edition), say 10 users. We would like each user (or program running in that user session) to utilize a separate IP address for all internet traffic. Is there a way to…

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Intel NIC teaming or server 2012 R2?
I'd like to implement NIC teaming on one of my servers and would like to know if it's better to use the Intel NIC teaming from the drivers or to use the NIC teaming from Windows Server 2012 R2.

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assign Second IP in ESXi 5.5 host Centos 6.6
Hello i have just installed CenOSs 6.6 on ESXi 5.5 and I have eth0 working fine. I have internet access and I want to assign a second IP in CentOS. So purchased another ip from oneprovider.com and was given another failover IP. I want to assign…

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3 NICs in VMware ESX 5.5.0 cannot connect to each other
I have a Vmware ESXi 5.5.0 hypervisor, installed on a desktop pc with 3 physical NICs. The first NIC is connected to the internet (WAN), the 2nd and 3rd NICs have Access Points installed (plugged in) to them.
I would like to create a single network…

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How to know whether network card has failed in Linux?
On a server heavily used for file download, the server stops responding ssh, http and ping request every few hours. It will be back to normal after server restart.
The provider technician guesses that it could be due to network failure. I am wonder…

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Second IP for VPS on VmWare ESXI?
I bought a VPS Server run on vmware ESXI and this server just had one IP; Now I decided to ask from the reseller to give me another IP; He says in order to do that he have to remove my account and create a new one with 2 network cards (nic). (this…

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No access to our server outside LAN
I hope this isn't above the scope of ServerFault. If the question doesn't work here, some direction would be helpful.
We've got an Ubuntu development server with 2 nics. One has a public IP and one is internal. Everything works fine internally,…

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2 NIC's with ESXi
Good day all,
I have an ESXi server running in a Data Center. The server is connected to an HP Pro Curve 2810 switch on NIC 1.
I have a second NIC on the server which I want to connect to a second Pro Curve switch.
I would like the ESXi server to be…

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Centos 6.4 2 NIC same gateway
I'm having a problem with my centos server setup, i have 2 public nic and they have the ip from 209.59.252.0/24, with the same gateway. The problem is that only eth0 works, the other one doesn't. They have both the same configuration. Gateway is in…

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Accessing the internet (or other network) via server with two NICs
I currently have the following setup whereby I need Server #1 to reach the Internet via Server #2 using its second NIC.
Is this possible using static routes? If so which route should be added to where?
At present server 1 can ping server 2, and…

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Static route to all ips except a defined set
I was wondering whats the best way to do a static route for all ips except a predefined set.
For example, I have 2 networks attached to one workstation. I want all ips except 192.168.0.0/24 to go through network A and all other through network B.…

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Specify what network connection to use based on IP being accessed
Basically, we have a number of machines with two network cards. One is wireless, one is not.
The wireless is connected to the internet, while the other one is connected to a route and a bunch of internal computers.
Is there a way to set the machine…

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