Questions tagged [network-adapter]
A network interface controller (also known as a network interface card, network adapter, LAN adapter and by similar terms) is a computer hardware component that connects a computer to a computer network.
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Making a machine that's using a different network adapter internet reachable
So I know that if I use a bridged adapter with a VM, then my router will treat it as a physical machine, assign it an IP and I could use port forwarding on my router to make the VM reachable through ...
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Two NICs, One Subnet -- Linux appears to be primarily transmitting on one NIC, and primarily receiving on the other NIC. How?
I recently pulled some hardware out of storage and put together a fileserver and for whatever reason, the motherboard has two gigabit NICs on it. Since I was tinkering, I figured I might as well plug ...
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Why is wifi slow on desktop pc but fast on laptop
I've tried reading other similar questions but none of the suggestions help.
I have a new desktop PC. I bought around 5 months ago.
Windows 10, AMD Ryzen 9 3900, 16GB 3200MHz RAM, Intel Wi-Fi 6 (802....
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order of dhcp interfaces
My debian server has two interfaces:
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth0.40 inet dhcp
It gets ip-addresses and anything else from an isc-dhcp-server. (That works well in common.)
But the dhcp options ...
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VirtualBox VM with dedicated nic
I have two NICs on my host machine: eno1 and eno2.
Both of these are connected to the same LAN and subnet, but with the intention that eno1 will only be used by the host OS, and eno2 will be dedicated ...
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Where is network adapter state information stored in the registry?
Running netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces in cmd shows some network interface information, including the state (connected or disconnected). Is this information stored in the registry and, if so, ...
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I bought a New Computer and it doesn't have a Wi-Fi Adapter
I bought a refurbished windows 10 HP from newegg. When I booted up for the first time it only gave me the option to connect to the internet via ethernet. After some investigation, I looked at the ...
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Network adapter requires a reset every 20-25 minutes after installing mesh wifi
After my household replaced their Nighthawk router with an Orbi mesh network, I have been experiencing regular network drops every 21 to 25 minutes on both my desktop and my laptop that require the ...
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How to Curl API with more than one IP address on Windows Server?
I purchased a real server with 10 dedicated IP addresses and Windows server on it to run my website on it. My app try to call an API and I need to send each request with one IP at a time. That's why I ...
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Testing for NIC card problems
I have two computers on the same LAN, on the same hub. When I run a speed test on one machine, I have 200mbps download speeds. The other computer gets 80mbps sometimes, sometimes 20mbps, and sometimes ...
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Binding of DNS Servers to Interfaces
I am deliberately leaving my platform unspecified for this question, though I will say that my "platforms of interest" are Linux and Windows 10.
Suppose I have N NICs. Each is connected to ...
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Routing between network adapters on Windows Enterprise
I have 2 network adapters, one is "Mobile Broadcast Network" (10.123.1.23) and the other is LAN (192.168.1.1).
I need to give the LAN adapter access to the cellular internet and I've tried ...
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Windows 10 can´t connect to local network with wifi and ethernet
for a few days now I’ve got a really strange problem with my network at home which (as far as I know) only affects my Windows 10 machines.
My problem:
My main computer is usually connected via ...
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How to modify ethernet adapter advanced properties without PowerShell?
I need to change ethernet adapter advanced properties (EEE, Interrupt Moderation, Flow Control, Wake on Magic Packet etc) on multiple computers running on Windows 7.
Doing it manually is tedious and ...
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Recommended 10Gb NIC in PCIe 4.0 1x slot? [duplicate]
I've been trying to figure this out for some time, and lots of googling has seen lots of discussion but no actual answers that I can find.
I'm the happy owner of an AMD Ryzen system on an ASUS TUF ...
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Showing all Network Adapters (connections) Icons in Windows 10 (and 7) System Tray (notification area, taskbar)
I need to have all the icons to monitor all the active connections at a glance in the notification area (system tray) (Windows 10, 7..).
Currently, Windows shows only one icon, for only one of all the ...
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How to verify ethernet sleep and power saving is disable on ethernet cards in Windows?
I am accustomed to seeing a "Power Management" tab on my network adapter. As well, sometimes under the "Advanced" tab you will see something like "ecoSomething" or "...
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Network scheduler not effective with non-status reporting bandwidth allocation
I was recently introduced to concepts like sqm, bufferbloat and network schedulers or queueing disclipines like cake, fq_codel etc.
# tc -d qdisc
qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2
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Does a USB-C ethernet adapter have a higher latency than a regular ethernet port?
Unfortunately, my new gaming laptop does not have a physical ethernet port. Will a USB-C to ethernet adapter produce the same latency(ping) as a physical ethernet port would? Also, how much CPU would ...
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Ifconfig command doesn't show wifi adapter
I have a little problem. I have 2 wifi adapters at home (1 TP-link T2U AC600 plus and a TP-link T4U AC1300),
I installed the driver and have acces to the internet. So I think the configuration went ...
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How To Find Root Cause of Network Card Down
Recently I encounter a very puzzuling problem. We are doing AI traingings based on some type of NPU device. The training usually read/write data from/to some NFS directory, and during the training we ...
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Hosting an NTP server on both NICs
I’ve enabled the win32time service to host an NTP server on a machine with two NICs. Each NIC is on a different network. I can query the time server from one of the networks, but not the other. Can I ...
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Wifi disabled in windows 10
Every time i turn on my laptop, wifi is disabled. It takes a restart to make it work.
I have tried reinstalling wifi drivers, read articles, even reinstalled windows but it didn't help.
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How do I extend the Ethernet port of our laptop using switch or without it for NIC teaming purpose?
How do I extend the Ethernet port of our laptop using switch or without it for NIC teaming purpose?
I want to use NIC teaming for faster Internet but my laptop has one Ethernet port, I want to add ...
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How does a MU-MIMO device with more antennas behave on a network with less?
If a device is MU-MIMO 4x4 and the router is 3x3 how does the device behave?
Does the MU-MIMO just not work and behaves as a SU-MIMO? Or does it drop an antenna and work as 3x3? Or does it attempt to ...
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USB-C to Ethernet adapter – network connection is unstable
I am using Fedora 32 KDE spin on a 4 year old Dell XPS 9550. This laptop does not have an ethernet port. I purchased 4 different USB C to Ethernet adapters. But only the cheapest one gives me a stable ...
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What is "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter" used for?
When I type ipconfig /all command in Windows command prompt, it shows some adapters with description of "Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter" (see image below).
Where did they come from ...
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Bind android emulator to a specific network adapter
I have 2 network interfaces on my Windows machine. 1 is my main WAN router, and the other is a modem with limited data cap. I have 2 problems I want to solve:
I want my Android emulator (googles ...
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My computer network interface is crashing while downloading
As title says my computer network interface is crashing while downloading.
I'm on Windows 10. My motherboard is asus p8h77-m pro.
I can use my computer and internet as normal, I never experienced this ...
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How to access Microstack instances on br-ex from other LAN devices?
I have Microstack installed in a Virtualbox VM with bridged adapter(192.168.0.27/24 subnet).
The microstack instances under 10.20.20.0/24 subnet can access the internet as well as the other machines ...
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How to solve no wifi at all on laptop? [closed]
I am using an HP laptop running on Windows 10 which seems to have no wifi connection at all. In Windows settings, there is no wifi option under Network & Update.
I tried to uninstall the network ...
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Optiplex 760 recognizes PCI-Express card as SDVO
I plugged a hp nc364t network card into the PCI-Express slot of my Optiplex 760. The NIC is fully working I tested it in another PC. However the Optiplex just recognizes the NIC as a SDVO card ...
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How to get rid of Hyper-V vEthernet adapters after uninstalling Hyper-V?
After removing Hyper-V and starting to use VMware instead, I am left with several network adapters that keep recreating themselves after reboot. This is a little annoying and has caused some issues. ...
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Windows 10 wifi network is not discovering
My windows 10 laptop is not showing wifi devices any more. I believe that I corrupted Network Adapter drivers anyhow. Now my question is if I reset my pc by selecting "Keep my data" option ...
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My motherboard ethernet is incompatible with the ethernet switch I bought. Why is that? How do I know which switch to buy?
I bought this ethernet switch to provide wired internet to my whole house:
It worked great until I bought a new computer (link to motherboard). The computer doesn't have a WiFi card (it was a cheap ...
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Connecting Ethernet cables causes dsl and internet lights on my modem to go off
Here is my strange problem:
After reinstalling windows 7 on my old pc, I cannot use my Ethernet cable to connect to internet.
I have a dlink dsl2730u modem. When I connect the Ethernet cable to my pc, ...
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Disable internet connection but leave the LAN working on windows 10
I want to know if there's anyway in windows 10 to block the internet access but leave LAN connection working without using external apps.
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Will network adapter settings be shared in a Windows 10 dual boot?
For a couple of reasons, I am considering a dual boot of Windows 10. One of those reasons is that I would like one of the boots to be an "Internet" boot with the ethernet adapter enabled, ...
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Applying Netplan Access Point settings?
I am upgrading a previous configuration of an AIO server/access point to Ubuntu 20.04. I wrote a Netplan configuration for our interfaces, as follows -
network:
version: 2
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Windows 8.1 internet drivers not working (nor by cable or wireless), manefacturer only offers Windows 10 drivers, what to do?
The computer Fujitsu LifeBook E Series E549, serial DSBS008346, model ME14B, came preinstalled with Windows 10. I prefer 8.1. I used an old iso I had to revert it, which badly needs up-dating. ...
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Creating a virtual network adapter on Windows to implement VPN
I would like to implement a custom VPN client on Windows 10 and therefore I am looking for examples how to create a virtual network adapter where I can grab all IP packets for a dedicated subnet.
I ...
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Why are my Intel VLAN virtual NICs stuck in a disabled state?
I am using Intel Advanced Network Services VLANs via the PROSet driver. This allows me to create virtual NICs in Windows that belong to specific 802.1Q tagged VLANs.
After an update to Windows 10 2004,...
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10 Gb network card connection
I have just bought the intel X540T2 shown below and when I opened my machine I am not sure if I can plug it in any of the available PCIe slots shown below? If anyone could please advise
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How do I set a firewall rule to block communication between NICs on the same computer?
I just added two NICs to my PC. They are connected to two separate networks. Is it possible to set the windows firewall to block communication between the two NICs? I'm on Windows 10 OS.
Let me know ...
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Get IP configuration of virtual or hidden network adapters
I need to get IP address of virtual (and/or) hidden network adapters, such as Hyper-V virtual ethernet or Ethernet (Kernel Debugger)
None of the following commands are giving me what I need:
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(Solved by a weird fix, still require a robust solution) Wifi Adapter Disappeared After Sleep
I am using Windows 10 Home on an Acer Swift SF315-41. The wireless adapter is a Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Wireless Network Adapter.
My WiFi was working fine recently, I had no power supply so it was ...
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Network profile not showing up when connecting to a Link local. E.g. USB Ethernet gadget
When I make my Raspberry Pi Zero W an ethernet gadget and connect it to the computer.
It shows up as an unidentified network. This causes there to be no network profile on the RNDIS/Ethernet adapter ...
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Any bad consequences if LAN IP of Windows machine is fixed?
I'm setting fixed LAN IP for my Windows machine with:
IP: 192.168.1.102 (Current one)
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
My Windows computer is turned off every day, what may happen if the IP ....
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Windows 10: How to configure firewall to use VPN only for some domains? [duplicate]
On my company laptop, I can activate the VPN connexion, but it's slow, and it will redirect all my traffic, including the web browser.
I'd like to be able to use the VPN only to SSH into the company'...
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Red 'X' image on Network Adapter Icon in Network Connections - Windows 10
Opened Network Connections window in Windows 10 v.1909 (Network and Sharing Center > Change Adapter Settings) only to find that my Primary Ethernet Adapter is displaying a Red 'X' as part of the icon:
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