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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Getting the MAC address in Windows 7 when NIC is disabled using C#
I need a way to retrieve the MAC address of a machine with Windows 7 when its Network Interface Card is disabled and using C#. I searched on the web and also refereed to the following links. Using the answer in the 2nd link I could get the required…

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Setting MTU in NIC with powershell
need help
I’m facing problem with the below script that show several steps:
print parameters from NIC before change
change MTU 8000
print parameters from NIC after change
commands:
Get-NetIPInterface | where {($_.interfacealias -eq "Delivery" )}…

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In Terraform, can I choose whether or not a variable is addressed based on a different Variable? NIC, Dynamic Static
I am trying to see if there is a way in Terraform code to optional provide the need for a variable based on the input of a different variable. For example, I have a module that creates a NIC within Azure, the code can look like the…

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Getting Cannot parse the request. (ErrorCode: InvalidRequestFormat) on Module Update-AzureRmVmss on PowerShell
I am trying to add a second subnet to a Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set using PowerShell.
The code I'm using is:
Add-AzureRmAccount
Select-AzureRmSubscription -SubscriptionId "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
$vnetname = "confvnet"
$loc = "West…

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Option rom: PXE design
During the study of the PCI firmware specification and the looking at the existing implementations of the PXE Boot Agents, I had a misunderstanding of how this should work.
According to PCI Firmware Specification, during the POST procedure the BIOS…

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What are NIC MMIO regions used for?
I'm confusing about the usage of NIC (Network interface card) MMIO regions.
For example, this is the information of a NIC on my computer
03:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
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Adding a new NIC to a Docker container in a specific order
I'm trying to have a CentOS container with two network interfaces.
After going through the Docker docs and "googleing" a bit, I found this GitHub issue comment that specifies how to achieve this.
Following it, I created a new network (default type:…

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Python -- put wireless card in Monitor Mode without `subprocess` or `os.system`
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Programatically put wireless card into Monitor mode without using subprocess or os.system
I am running Linux and I understand that I could
ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor
ifconfig wlan0 up
This could be done with…

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NIC binding for c# applications
I need to be able to route all traffic from my application through a NIC of my choosing and be able to inspect and modify HTTP traffic. Currently, I can achieve my goals with a roundabout method due to a lack of time/resources:
client -> http proxy…

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Get Intel Network Interface Card Supported RSS Descriptor Queue Number
Is there a way to get the supported number of Receive-Side Scaling descriptor queues for a Intel Network Interface Card in Centos5 programmatically?
For example for I210 I want to get 4, for I350 I want to get 8.
I will use that value on…

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Routing the packets using mac address in policy routing for two NIC device
I am using policy based routing in my PC having two NICs.This is the content of script which i use to run at startup to configure the routing.
My two NIC's IPs are 192.168.1.123/24 and 192.168.1.124/24
echo "1 first">> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
ip…

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OpenWrt in Microsoft Azure or Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Goal: I would like to run OpenWrt in a Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine.
Problem: From researching it appears that Azure and Hyper-V have the same issue where the Virtual NIC are not detected.
Supposed Solution: Supposedly the solution is to patch…

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link state notification in Java
Is there any way in Java to receive event notifications whenever link state changes on a computer (connected, disconnected, up, down, etc)? Thanks!

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Hadoop Cluster datanode network error
I have a small cluster with Cloudera Hadoop installation. After a few days, I noticed that there is constantly errors/dropped/frame when I run ifconfig -a command. (From the highlevel perspective, map reduce job will run smoonthly without error and…

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Testing the performance of NICs in Amazon EC2
Is there any way to know any information about the Network Interface Cards (NIC) of servers in EC2?
I've tried a lot of commands that typically work in Linux, but seems it's all abstracted out when you try them on EC2 VMs.
Alternately, is there any…

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