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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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USB to ethernet adapter stuck at USB 2.0 speed

I bought this USB-A 3.0 to ethernet adapter, connected it to a usb 3 port, and i'm only getting about 300mbps, tested and confirmed with iperf3: So i started investigating and USB Device Tree Viewer ...
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Linux: Intel WIFI Card stops working after hibernate

I have a Laptop with a Intel WIFI card (Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX200 (rev 1a)) and Fedora 38 installed (kernel: 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64). Since some months I face the problem that sometimes after ...
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Hyper-V Switch separate WIFI NIC Kali Linux

Situation: I have a Hyper-V external switch connected to my Wi-Fi network adapter. I have also opted to NOT allow network adapter sharing in the switch manager for the Wi-Fi network adapter, since I ...
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How to use Windows network card drivers in Kali Linux

I bought a wireless network adapter so I put it in my Windows PC, I installed the driver automatically by an .exe program that installed in it; then I installed Kali Linux (last version) to start ...
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Windows 10 Pro computer can no longer connect to or recognize domain network

Background I have a domain-joined Windows 10 Pro machine that has been working fine on an internal Windows Server 2012 R2 domain (for this question, let's call it MYDOMAIN.COM) for years without any ...
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Network card stops working on AsrockRack Server Board EP2C612D16NM-2T8R

We are facing an issue with one of the onboard 10G Intel X540 network cards on our AsrockRack Server Board EP2C612D16NM-2T8R. All of a sudden one Network card stops working. Disabling the Network ...
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Diagnosing an intermittently failing M2 PCIe I225v NIC in PCI passthrough

I am using a M2 PCIe I225v NIC (http://www.iocrest.com/index.php?id=2316) as a PCI passthrough on my Proxmox host - passed to a pfSense VM (running freeBSD-14, but same occurs on freeBSD-13). It's ...
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VPN Crashes Home Wireless Network

I have recently started a new job working from home. We utilize FortiClient VPN and our company has an EMS server that it reaches. At home I am using a Netgear Nighthawk RS400 AC2300 and I am ...
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USB Ethernet adapter keeps failing every few minutes on Ubuntu 22.04

The OS is Ubuntu 22.04 installed on a model "DELL Inspiron 13 5379 2-in-1" laptop. Everything else is OK, except for a disconnecting issue on the network. The hardware does not have an ...
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Windows does not differentiate between Ethernet adapters of same model

I try to connect to several physically divided Networks with different net-masks. Because I often need to connect to more than one simultaneously I want to setup and leave one Ethernet adapter with ...
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Second network card in a laptop

In order to gain more knowledge in ethical hacking through practice, I wanted to get a proper network card, because my chipset is actually not good enough :( Problems are: Is it possible to add a ...
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I am not able to get around 1000 Mbps network speed using crossover cables

I used cat 6 and cat 5e crossover cables directly between a laptop and a desktop. I set my computer ports (both of them) to max speed of 1gbps. I tried different cables. The speed does not go above 50-...
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Network Interface Card not using the correct PCI link width

I am running a Mellanox PCIe card that uses PCIe 4.0 x8 that should be running at 16GB/s. This is connected into a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot on this motherboard. This also runs at 16GB/s and I should be able ...
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Windows server 2019 VM (Hyper-V) no access to internet

I have a Windows server 2012 computer hosting a Windows server 2019 server with Hyper-V but the Virtual Machine can't connect to the internet. The guest adapter is set up as External. I have other VMs ...
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TAP Windows Adapter V9

I just reinstalled Windows 11 and now my TAP Windows Adapter V9 shows unplugged. Everything that I have tried has failed to solve the problem. I have a VPN that uses it. My Proton VPN connects to ...
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My download speed is throttled to 90Mbps both on WiFi and LAN

I have a 400Mbps connection, yet my computer only achieves around 90Mbps on various online speed measuring sites. While this could be attributed to the fact, that the house itself were connected to ...
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Recurrent WiFi Disconnection/Disappearance and Long Restart Time (Dell Inspiron 15 3000, Windows 11)

I am experiencing a recurring problem with my network adapter/connection on my Dell Inspiron 15 3000 laptop running Windows 11. The WiFi symbol disappears spontaneously from the bottom right corner ...
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Flaky Internet on windows when Linux (on same machine) is rock solid

I've been dealing with this issue for over a month now. I'll list everything I've tried but feel free to ask for additional information or logs and I can track them down. (I am a software engineer and ...
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Internet works through a router but not when connected directly to the ethernet port in macbook pro

I'm in an engineering college and we connect to internet via proxy servers. We have an ethernet port in each room to connect to the internet. I have an ubuntu pc and I can use an RJ45 cable to connect ...
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How to block website on Network adapter level in Windows 10/11?

I have 2 network adapter, I want to block some websites ex: facebook on adapter 1(LAN ethernet), and allow to access the those same websites on adapter 2(mobile usb tathering internet) Is there any ...
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Trying to change subnet of "static only" net-adapters from list of computer hostnames. Script runs but no change in subnet mask

I need to change the subnet mask of several machines at once from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0. The goal is for the script to only do this on net-adapters that have static ipv4 addresses, and for it ...
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Host connexion to mobile Hotspot impossible using hypervisors

For a couple months ago, I can't connect to my mobile hotspot when I'm launching VMs on my laptop. Whether it is Virtualbox or VMWare Player, Guest Ubuntu/Kali, my host OS (Windows 11) it doesn't work ...
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Wifi card limits download speed before router restart

I'm having weird problem, when laptop boots, download speed on it is limited to just 0,6MB/s. Once router gets restarted and laptop is on, speed returns to normal. I'm guessing that problem must be in ...
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Issues with my integrated network adapter and peer-to-peer connections

I'm having issues with my integrated network adapter I219-V when playing games with a peer-to-peer connection, either with me as the general host or another person. For the purpose of information the ...
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What is a robust way to detect the name of the private LAN NIC if there are multiple NICs on Centos?

I am using the following to detect the private LAN NIC. export PRIVATE_LAN=`ip a|grep "inet 192"|tr -s ' '|cut -d' ' -f8` Is that robust for long-term? It does depend on the formatting from ...
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Windows TAP Adapter and Wifi Adapter not working simultaneously to allow my OpenVPN to work

I have a PC that has a lot of frustrating corporate security group policy settings but I need to be able to remote into a OpenVPN server to do work. I am able to get OpenVPN to work when using an ...
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On a Linux system with three network interfaces, how to make two of them communicate only via the third one?

On my Linux VM, I have three network interfaces. enp0s3: connected to a private network. (IP address manually set) enp0s8: connected to a private network. (IP address manually set) enp0s9: connected ...
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Windows System 2019 configure nic teaming report "The parameter is incorrect."

background: I refer to the following article for configuration. http://woshub.com/configure-nic-teaming-windows/ But I got "new-NetLbfoTeam : The parameter is incorrect." output like this ...
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windows create virtual ethernet adapter base a single physical adapter then link aggregation these

Background (Why I want to do this) My computer is connected to a flow control switch.The switch will limit the speed of each accessed IP to 10mbps.So I want to access multiple IPs and merge them to ...
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wifi works on phone but not on laptop in cafe

Here's the situation. I'm at a cafe (in Bali, Indonesia for what it's worth). My phone is a Pixel 6 Pro and my laptop is a Lenovo with a Killer WiFi 6 AX1650 wireless network adapter that is ...
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Vmware player netdiscover not working with 2 network adapters (host-only and bridged)

I have 2 network adapters on a linux VM, host-only and bridged. From this VM I'm trying to use netdiscover on both network individually. None is returning any result. Using wireshark, I see on the ...
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VirtualBox E_FAIL (0x80004005) error when adding host-only network

When I tried to add a host-only network to VirtualBox, it gave me this error: Assertion failed: [!aInterfaceName.isEmpty()] at 'F:\tinderbox\win-6.1\src\VBox\Main\src-server\HostNetworkInterfaceImpl....
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How can I configure my 2 VM's to communicate with each other via VMware WS, but not connect to the internet?

I have 2 windows 10 VM's set up on VMWare Workstation, both have been set to "Host Only" in adapter settings, however they cannot connect to each other or my host device. Am I missing ...
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Wake On LAN for Windows PC

I have Asus PRIME H470-PLUS motherboard with plugged in Intel PCI network card adapter. Trying to configure WOL for current PC on local network. I was trying to wake up PC from others PC on local ...
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Windows Event to signal removed network adapters

I am looking for a way to programmatically recognize when a network adapter under windows is removed. In particular, I want to get noticed when a network adapter disappears from Control Panel\Network ...
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Same WiFi adapter slow on desktop but fast on laptop

Quick disclaimer before anyone asks: I used the exact same physical adapter on both my relatively high-end desktop PC and a laptop. All of the WiFi tests where done at the same location (so nothing ...
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Windows 11 got slower Internet speed than Ubuntu

My current network setup: 2x 1Gbps Internet from ISP and I did load balancing on my router. The connection speed between the router and my PC is 2.5Gbps, which should give me around 1.8Gbps download ...
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Multiple NIC on the same computer: the traffic on a NIC causes delay on the other NIC

I have a 1GB pci-express NIC peer-to-peer connected to an ethernet video camera. When there is ethernet traffic on the other integrated NIC (for example during a 4k streaming video from youtube), ...
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Is it possible to combine multiple WiFi connections for one single fast connection on a guest network?

In an entirely hypothetical scenario where I was living in a building where there is no ethernet and only Wi-Fi connections capped at 50Mbps, would it be possible for me to have multiple devices that ...
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How to correctly set the interface name in WireGuard in Windows?

Using WireGuard, I noticed a counter in the interface name of WireGuard interfaces in Windows. See for example the following image: How I reproduce it: I created (and activated) an interface using ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 multiple virtual interface on one NIC

I'm reading this instruction, but it seems to be broken for Ubuntu 22.04. I want to have an self assigned static IP address and a DHCP given IP address using one network interface. How can I define ...
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Intel 82599es based NIC flapping issue

I have a Dell R510 running the newest version of OMV with an Intel 82599es based Silicom PE210G2BPI9 2x10Gbps LC/LC MMF NIC on the newest ixgbe driver (downloaded and compiled locally). I also have a ...
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Windows could not start the WLAN-AutoConfig service; error 0x080004005

I'm trying to use a WLAN-Stick (TP Link TL-WN821N) to connect to a wireless network. However, my PC (Windows 10 Pro) doesn't show any wireless networks. When trying to troubleshoot the problem, ...
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WSL has suddenly got no network connectivity

Whatever connectivity-requiring operation I try to do says network is unreachable, even though Windows host accesses internet and local network normally. I'm using a Manjaro distro custom-built from ...
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Slower Internet speeds with USB ethernet adapter than card from motherboard

I'm having very weird performance issue with downloading files. Networking: Huawei HG8240H router ( ISP ) - 1 Gbps FO link TP-Link Archer C6 AC1200 connected to that Huawei router with 1 Gbps port ...
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Can we RDP a server via NIC2 when NIC1 is connected to production

I have a CCTV workstation (Dell 7920 workstation with multiple NICs). The way it is planned is to connect NIC1 to production environment. Can i configure NIC2 with IP on different segment and do a RDP ...
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Why Internet speed dropped after install VPN Software?

Due to my work I had to install several VPN software, however, I noticed that Windows 11 has created a dedicated network adapter for which it VPN programs and also for the Vmware and antivirus. After ...
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Why does windows try and use a network with no internet when connected to two networks at once?

I have known for a long while now that when Windows is connected to two networks at a time, it will split traffic between them in an effort to increase the speed or something like that. However, even ...
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Using wifi and ethernet at the same time

I want to use my ethernet unlimited internet for downloading and normal browsing (so I want chrome and the download manager to use it) At the same time I want to use a wifi metered internet for a game ...
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Multiple wpa_supplicants/dhclients for multiple vlan network

tl;dr: How to get multiple wpa_supplicants and dhclient on different nics in different vlan running on debian_bulls/proxmox7? Ive been browsing and wasn't able to find a proper answer. I have this ...
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