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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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How to measure a driver's memory consumption in Windows?

I've heard an unchecked gossip that Realtek drivers on Windows 2008 suffer from memory leakage. My computer with this network card and OS suffers exactly from this symptom - high memory consumption. So, is there any way to measure how much memory…
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I'm having problems getting CentOS to recognize an Intel Ethernet card. Any suggestions please?

I have a dual-port Intel Pro/1000 (82571EB) PCIe card. I've installed in into a Dell PowerEdge 1950 running CentOS 6.2 x64. The card is detected and the kernel module is loaded, but a start-up script is not created in…
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Is there additional risks to firewalling between VLANs on a single Dot1Q trunk, as opposed to discrete ethernet links?

I'm looking at implementing a pfSense firewall on a network, and I've a number of options when it comes to implementation. Specifically, I can either: Stick each network zone (WAN, DMZ, core) on separate interfaces going into the firewall…
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PCI Express x1 Network Card on PCI Express x8 slot

I have a Fujitsu Primergy TX100 S2 server and I want to add more network cards. The only PCI slot is already occupied with a NIC. I have available one PCI Express x4 slot and two PCI Express x8 slots. On my local shops I can only find x1 cards and…
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Network issue - Very slow while RXing but TXing is fine

I am trying to transfer a 10GB file to test my network. But when I transfer from Workstation 1 to Workstation 2, it takes 8 minutes (which is fine). But from Workstation 2 to Workstation 1, the transfer takes 50 minutes or so. Here is the…
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how to add iptables rules for two NICs on CentOS(act as a gateway)

I have a machine C with two NICs, namely eth0 and eth1, with CentOS 4.9 installed on it. Also I have a machine A connecting to C through eth0 and a machine B connecting to C through eth1. Now I want machine A to be in a subnet (e.g. 192.168.3.0/24)…
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ESXi vswitch with 2 physical nics, does it actually use both nics?

Fairly new to ESXi, using 4.1 Has a vSwitch setup with both physical nic cards, one of them is for the public network of the host server and the other is for the private network. Without mapping one of the nics to a second vSwitch, will ESXi and my…
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How to install (old) packages for Ubuntu 9.04?

Based on some excellent feedback by Mark here (Should I clone a physical server to create a vm for a staging server?), today I was able to use the vmware converter to clone my production server for a staging server. However the nic won't come up no…
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What's the best use of 4 nics for Hyper-V?

I'm running several Dell R710's, each of which is outfitted with 4 x Broadcom BCM5709C nics. Two of these R710's are running Hyper-V and a third is running SQL Server 2008, each running Windows Server 2008 R2. The fourth is running Windows Storage…
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Slow NIC activation - Win2008-R2

I'm having this strange issue with this server (HP Proliant with broadcom NIC) running Windows 2008 R2. The network card takes almost 2 minutes to activate. That is, when you disable/enable the card it won't actually "connect" until about 2 mins. …
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How to route all traffic to one host trough one of two nic's on linux

Setup as follows: One gateway/firewall One switch Two servers behind firewall with 2 NICs each. Each NIC is connected to the switch. The servers are running Ubuntu server. One of the two NICs is now used for all traffic. What I want is for all…
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Multiple NICs with static IP address, default gateway problems

My server is running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit and have 2 NICs, my configuration is one interface for incoming/outgoing traffic of all the KVM guest running on this server, the other interface for different purpose. I set both NIC card and the virtual…
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Setting up two NICs on two separate LANs provides error

I wish I had found this before starting in, but it's too late for that... I am running CentOS 5.5. I started following this guide for setting up two NICs on different networks. Everything was going fine until I hit this step: This part allow the…
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"System cannot find the file specified" trying to reinstall network driver

After uninstalling Symantec Enpoint Protection (manually) one computer (Windows XP) has an inoperative NIC; it shows up in device manager as conflicted. I tried doing a windows repair from CD, which did not improve the situation. When I went to…
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Have Dedicated NICs for Virtual Machine on VMware Server?

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 box with multiple NICs (only one of which is currently in use). I have VMware Server installed on this box running a VM. I'd like to dedicate one of my free NICs on the host specifically for use of the VM, rather than…
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