Network interface card

Wireless network interface card client. A wireless card is a piece of hardware that is plugged in to a computer and enables that computer to make a wireless network connection. The card consists of a transmitter, functional circuitry, and a receiver... 

In addition, new Ethernet firewall cards that fit in the slot of an individual computer bundle additional layers of defense (like encryption and permit/deny) for individual computer transmissions to the network interface function. These new cards have only a slightly higher cost than traditional network interface cards. 

Network interface cards, addressing, and connections Printers Connection Bit switch settings Printer driver installation Networks Connection Network addressing... 

Some of the newer printers (primarily laser and LED printers) have a special interface that allows them to be hooked directly to a network. These printers have a network interface card (NIC) and ROM-based software that allow them to communicate with networks, servers, and workstations. 

It takes several items to make a workstation into a client. You must install a network interface card (NIC), a special expansion card that allows the PC to talk on a network. You must connect it to a cabling system that connects to another computer (or several other computers). And you must install some special software, called client software, which allows the computer to talk to the servers. Once all this has been accomplished, the computer will be on the network. To the client, the server may be nothing more than just another drive letter. However, because it is in a network environment, the client is able to use the server as a doorway to more storage or more applications, or through which it may communicate with other computers or other networks. To a user, being on a network changes a few things ... 

The network interface card (NIC) provides the physical interface between computer and cabling. It prepares data, sends data, and controls the flow of data. It can also receive and translate data into bytes for the CPU to understand. It communicates at the Physical layer of the OSI model and comes in many shapes and sizes. 

For the computer to use the network interface card, it is very important to install the proper device drivers. These drivers communicate directly with the network redirector and adapter. They operate in the Media Access Control sublayer of the Data Link layer of the OSI model. 

Each of these features can enhance the performance of a network interface card. Most cards today have at least one, if not several, of these features. 

In the next section, you learned about the different kinds of network media used to connect computers into a network. Some of these media include copper cable, fiber-optic cable, and wireless media. In addition to the different types of media, you learned about the different kinds of Network Interface Cards (NICs) used to connect computers to the network media. Finally, in this section, you learned what method of network access (e.g., contention, token passing, etc.) each major network technology uses to gain access to the network media. 

Data Link layer network interface card (NIC) Token Ring... 

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Many components use blocks of memory as part of their normal functioning. Network interface cards, for instance, often buffer incoming data in a block of memory until they can be processed. This prevents the card from being overloaded if a burst of data is received from the network. 

Jefore you can begin with the configuration of your network, you must have a network card installed in the machine. Installing a network card is a fairly simple task if you have installed any expansion card before a network interface card (NIC) is just a special type of expansion card. To install an NIC, follow these steps ... 

Cannot log on to network (option—NIC not functioning) If your computer is hooked up to a network (and more and more computers today are), you need to know when your computer is not functioning on the network properly and what to do about it. In most cases, the problem can be attributed to either a malfunctioning Network Interface Card (NIC) or improperly installed network software. The biggest indicator in Windows that some component of the network software is nonfunctional is that you can t log on to the network or access any network service. To fix this problem, you must first fix the underlying hardware problem (if one exists), then properly install or configure the network software. 

Each operating system contains a standard set of device drivers for the keyboard, the monitor, and so on, but if you add specialized peripherals (such as a CD-ROM disk drive) or a network interface card, you will probably have to add the appropriate device driver so that the operating system knows how to manage the device. In DOS, device drivers are loaded by the DEVICE or DEVICEHIGH commands in CONFIG.SYS. 

PCI Abbreviation for Peripheral Component Interconnect. A specification introduced by Intel that defines a local bus that allows up to 10 PCI-compliant expansion cards to be plugged into the computer. One of these 10 cards must be the PCI controller card, but the others can include a video card, network interface card, SCSI interface, or any other basic input/output function. The PCI controller exchanges information with the computer s processor as 32- or 64-bits and allows intelligent PCI adapters to perform certain tasks concurrently with the main processor by using bus mastering techniques. 

All electronic network equipment, including network interface cards, hubs, routers, switches, bridges and other stand-alone network equipment. 

We have seen in the previous section that a massively parallel computer consists of a number of nodes connected via a communication network, and that the nodes comprise small groups of processors that share memory and other resources, although a node may also contain just a single processor. Each individual node in a parallel computer is typically essentially the same as a personal computer with the addition of specialized hardware (a host channel adaptor (HCA) or a network interface card (NIC)) to connect the computer to the network. Parallelizing an application is not strictly a matter of providing for... 

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This network in a box is now ready for workstations to be hooked up to it through twisted pair connections to the media interfaces on the network interface cards of the PCs or workstations. Remember that ethernet can run over UTP (unshielded twisted pair), STP, thick and thin coaxial as well as fiber. 

Network adapter cards, also known as network interface cards are the physical link between a client or server PC and the shared media of the network. Providing this interface between the network and the PC or workstation requires that the network adapter card have the ability to adhere to the access methodology (CSMA/CD or token passing) of the network architecture to which it is attached. These software rules, implemented by the network adapter card which control the access to the shared network media, are known as media access control (MAC) protocols and are represented on the MAC sublayer of the data link layer (layer 2) of the OSI 7-layer reference model. 

Network interface card (NIC) The physical device or circuit used to interface the network with a local... 

The term virtualization refers to methodology of dividing the computer (or server) resources (the CPU, memory, disk drives, network interface cards and so forth) in to multiple separate execution environmental achieving by many mechanisms such as hardware partitioning, time-sharing, partial or complete machine simulation, emulation and others. The resulting environments which are... 

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