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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Windows Server 2012, two NICs & routing with RRAS
Windows Server 2012, two NICs, only rras role installed.
PC2 can PING anything at 192.168.2.xx by IP, but not by name.
PC2 in Network Neighborhood has only itself and mserver, but can access anything at \\192.168.2.xx (by IP, but not by…

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Isn't setting "Number of RSS queues" to "1" pointless?
If I understand RSS (Receive Side Scaling) correctly, the src/dst IP+port combos of incoming UDP and TCP packets get hashed, and the packet gets distributed into the available RSS queues using that hash value, using some mapping like hashCode modulo…

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Windows Server 2012 r2 standard with dual NIC + DHCP
Currently I have a physical host with Windows Server 2012 r2 standard installed and DHCP role enabled. In addition the physical host has two network interface cards.
I am planing to connect the physical host to two separate physical network.…

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After making my VM highly available I get "Could not find Ethernet switch" error when trying to live migrate
I normally create new VMs from the Failover Cluster Manager GUI. But this time around I went a different route because I had to (due to time constraints and available resources at the time). For this one VM I had to create it on cluster node1…

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Windows Dual NIC - Will this setup cause an ip address conflict?
My company has three subnets total of which two subnets have the same set of ip addresses... 192.168.0.x. This has not been an issue before but we are going to establish a VPN connection between two routers. So now my network will look like the…

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Adding a virtual NIC to a 2008R2 server makes internet unreachable, why?
I currently have a Windows Server 2008R2 box with a single physical NIC. For what I want to do I need two network adaptors in the box. To accomplish this, I added a legacy hardware device "Network Adaptor" and used the Microsoft Loopback Adaptor as…

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How to setup 3 networks on a 2 NICs Ubuntu box?
I need to configure 3 networks on my Ubuntu machine (OpenStack Network node)
The /etc/network/interfaces I have is:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# OpenStack management interface
auto eth1
iface…

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Network adapter disappeared
Today I found myself in a strange situation where my Windows Server 2008r2 machine has internet connection while not showing any connections in 'network connections'. It does not show anywhere in Network and Sharing Center. The strange thing is that…

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Cannot set 1G speed on 10G nic using ethtool
I have a linux server with 10G fibre nics:
xyz@xyz48:~$ sudo ethtool p1p1
Settings for p1p1:
Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
Supported link modes: 10000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: No
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Complex DNS resolution on non-connected networks (Ethernet & InfiniBand)
We're having problems with DNS resolution working properly when each server is on two, non-connected networks (an Ethernet and an InfiniBand).
An example network can be seen by the basic Visio network diagram
When using the FQDN for the AD server,…

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ESXi 5.5 NIC teaming for Load balancing using Cisco Etherchannel
I am using Cisco 3750G stacked switch configured with etherchannel and connected to ESXi Server configured with NIC teaming; Load balancing as router based on IP Hash.
Cisco Switch configuration: ( VID 199 is ESXi-Mgmt)
interface…

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vagrant fails to bring up additional adapter for centos vm using virtual box provider
this is in continuation of the question asked here about host only adapter on dhcp
I upgraded to vagrant 1.6.3 and the updated Vagrantfile to following setting for multiple adapters
# add additional adapter for inter machine…

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What happen when I assign 2 IP on one NIC?
What happen when I assign 2 IP on one NIC?
e.g. I have one physical NIC (eth0) and I assign on this interface 2 IPs from different network. e.g.
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.10.0.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway…

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Multiple IP addresses on one NIC register twice in DNS server
We've got a build server (Windows Server 2008 SP2, 64-bit) which has one NIC and two IP addresses registered to that NIC (192.168.1.30 and 192.168.1.31). The build server is registering two identical Host (A) records for itself in our DNS…

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Multiple NIC arp issue
I'm troubleshooting an issue on Centos 6.4. I have a few systems setting up for greenplum. Each one has two "interconnect" interfaces connecting to an isolated subnet. It is like a cluster interconnect. So each has eth2 and eth3 both in…

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