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Peripheral Component Interconnect

Connector on a motherboard to plug in cards to extend the functionality of a computer.

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KVM NIC passthrough "device already in use"

I have a server with 2 NICs 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01) and i want to assign…
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How to check if system supports 64-bit PCIe decoding?

In my motherboard's manual, I see the following under BIOS configuration Above 4G Decoding (Available if the system supports 64-bit PCI decoding) Select Enabled to decode a PCI device that supports 64-bit in the space above 4G Address. The…
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SSH Server Public Key Too Small

Customer has vendor who generates a Scan for PCI compliance on their Debian 8 server. Taken from their report: DSA keys and RSA keys shorter than 2048 bits are considered vulnerable. It is recommended to install a RSA public key length of at …
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SSL Security error with SQL Server 2016 sp1

I'm running SQL Server 2016 sp1 on a Windows Server 2012 r2 box. Supposedly, unlike earlier versions of SQL Server, SQL Server 2016 is compatible with TLS 1.2 right out of the box.... Right? Anyway, everything in my application works fine until I…
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KVM/qemu/libvirt VM PCI Domain/Bus/Slot/Function assignment using virt-install

I am trying to create a VM using the virt-install utility and while that is easy enough to do what I would like to be able to do is proving quite difficult. I would like to be able to specify the domain/bus/slot/function of the ethernet interfaces…
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Testing software on lots of PCI cards

I am developing software that needs to work across the largest possible array of PCI adapter cards. Consider PCI ethernet cards. I can collect dozens of different cards, and I have a Windows XP machine dedicated to testing. My first guess is to…
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Raid controller for an old server

I'm trying to find a PCI Raid controller for an old machine that only has 64bit/33MHz PCI slots. It's now being used as a file server and uses a couple of old PATA drives with Windows Server standard mirroring for redundancy. The idea is to…
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What do the IDs of PCI devices refer to and which ones are relevent for setting up passthrough?

In setting up a domain with virsh, I had always assumed that the "slot" of a PCI card referred to which slot on the motherboard it was in. However, that seems not two be the case, cards in two different physical slots are assigned to the same "slot"…
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Get firmware version for InfiniBand adapter from QLogic

How can I find the correct firmware version number for a QLogic InfiniBand adapter on a Debian server? ibstat displays an empty version number like so: Firmware version: Hardware version: 2 lspci -vvv is also silent on the issue like…
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Linux: Disabling Interrupt Coalescing for NVMe device

I'm looking at testing an NVMe device with interrupt coalescing enabled, and disabled. NVMe protocol defined interrupt coalescing parameters that can be passed to the device, and in free BSD the nvme module has these parameters to configure: …
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PCI addresses of 2 network ports differ only in "device function" field => they belong to the same NIC?

I have multiple 10G ethernet ports on my server. Here is lspci for some of them: 81:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01) 81:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit…
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Confirm user_readenv is off in pam_env module

I firstly wanted to say "thank you!" for all the support that I have gained by reading the articles on this site - a major benefit for a web developer donning a sysadmin hat... We are currently working to get our Web Server PCI compliant and have…
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Manually assign a PCI card to an interrupt

I have a server with two telephony cards (digium) and both are sharing the same IRQ. I'm getting a lot of interrupt misses on both cards and is affecting the quality. This wasn't like this before but I changed the cards from their original…
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Will a 64-bit RAID card in a 32-bit PCI slot make me cry later, even though it works now?

One of our less-critical servers seems to have lost the use of its onboard SATA controller -- which was managing the software-mirrored boot volume. The simplest and cheapest fix was to buy a 2-port SATA controller at the local Fry's -- or so it…
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Why won't mutliple identical 56k fax modems work in Windows?

I've just installed two identical fax modems into a Windows Server 2003 Standard server and for whatever reason, the first one works fine and the other doesn't. They both create virtual COM ports and using SysInternals PortMon, I can see that…
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