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New Technique for Fixing an Ethernet IPv6 Address Using the Fedoracore Operating System: During the course to deploy Ipv6, it was found that several critical implementation and operational issues which distract user and possibly prevent wide deployment of Ipv6. Among the problems it is noticed stateless IP autoconfiguration, which provides for each nodes connected to the network an IP address. However, two nodes...; Tags: Technique, Ethernet, IPv6, Network, Network Interface Card, IP, IP Address, Association For Computing Machinery, Validation, Networking, Network Technology; White papers 2008-05-12
Edubuntu update - it freakin' rocks: So after my last Edubuntu debacle With Feisty Fawn comes a new Edubuntu I decided to wait until I could devote a bit of time to a proper install. By proper I mean no attempts at dual booting, no cheesy extra hard drives floating around, just a straight install...; Tags: Education Technology; Blog posts 2007-05-09
VMware VMotion Performance on the Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade Server: The purpose of this paper is to quantify the impact on typical VMware operations of having just two network connections available for each ESX Server host running on a set of PowerEdge 1955 blades. ESX was configured on each blade so that the ESX Service Console and the VMotion traffic...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Blade Server, Performance, Network Interface Card, Blade, VMware Inc., Dell PowerEdge, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Networking, Hardware; White papers 2007-03-01
Linux Enumeration of NICs: Version 3: Linux naming of the hardware network interfaces may not align with BIOS and chassis labeling of the Ethernet ports. This is seen on Dell PowerEdge 1950, 1955, 2900, and 2950 servers when using a Linux 2.6 kernel-based product such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Network Interface Card, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Networking, Software, Hardware; White papers 2007-01-01
Towards NIC-Based Intrusion Detection: This paper presents and evaluates a NIC-based network intrusion detection system. Intrusion detection at the NIC makes the system potentially tamper-proof and is naturally extensible to work in a distributed setting. Simple anomaly detection and signature detection based models have been implemented on the NIC firmware, which has its own...; Tags: Network Interface Card, Networking, Intrusion Detection, Security; White papers 2007-01-01

A Reconfigurable and Programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card: RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet network interface card NIC. It is an open platform meant for research and education into network interface design. The NIC is implemented on a commercial FPGA prototyping board that includes two Xilinx FPGAs, a Gigabit Ethernet interface, a PCI interface, and both...; Tags: Network, Network Interface Card, Gigabit Ethernet, FPGA, Network Interface, RiceNIC, Networking; White papers 2006-12-01
Performance Study of Winsock Direct With 10 Gb Ethernet RDMA-Enabled NIC: This paper describes a performance study conducted with the new 10 Gb Ethernet iWARP RDMA-enabled adapter from NetEffect, using Microsoft Winsock Direct Server Area Network technology. The paper starts with a brief summary of the Winsock Direct software architecture and the NetEffect hardware architecture. It provides initial performance results for...; Tags: Performance, Network Interface Card, IEEE, Performance Management, Ethernet, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2006-10-19
Linux Enumeration of NICs: Version 2.0: Linux naming of the hardware network interfaces may not align with BIOS and chassis labeling of the Ethernet ports. This is seen on Dell PowerEdge 1950, 1955, 2900, and 2950 servers when using a Linux 2.6 kernel-based product such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, and Novell/SuSE Linux Enterprise Server...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Network Interface Card, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Networking, Software, Hardware; White papers 2006-10-01
Linux Enumeration of NICs: Version 1.0: Linux enumeration of the network interfaces may not align with BIOS and chassis labeling of the Ethernet ports. The administrator can rename the Ethernet interfaces to coincide with the labeling of the ports. Linux may not enumerate the network interfaces as expected. System administrators may expect the onboard network ports...; Tags: Network, Network Interface Card, Network Interface, Linux, Ethernet, Networking, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2006-08-01
An Efficient Buffer Management in a Network Interface Card: This paper proposes a dynamic packet buffer management algorithm for a protocol processor in a network terminal. The protocol processor is to handle high-speed data streams, more than 10 Gb/s, in a Network Interface Card NIC. There are two types of packet buffer management algorithms, static and dynamic. In general,...; Tags: Network, Network Interface Card, Management Algorithm, Protocol Processor, Engineering, Networking; White papers 2006-07-01
Receive Descriptor Recycling for Small Packet High Speed Ethernet Traffic: This paper presents the concept of Receive Descriptor Recycling to significantly reduce the performance drop associated with small packet Gigabit Ethernet traffic. Since limits and trade-offs are inherent when optimising for small packet traffic, all important aspects in this context are covered. Low-level measurements were performed at the CERN LHCb...; Tags: Performance, Network Interface Card, Recycling, Gigabit Ethernet, Receive Descriptor Recycling, Ethernet, Networking, Network Technology, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2006-05-19
A Simple Integrated Network Interface for High-Bandwidth Servers: High-bandwidth TCP/IP networking places a significant burden on end hosts. This paper presents a Simple Integrated NIC design SINIC that is significantly less complex and more flexible than a conventional DMA-descriptor-based NIC but performs as well or better than the conventional NIC when both are integrated onto the processor die....; Tags: Optimization, Network, Network Interface Card, University Of Michigan, Network Interface, Networking; White papers 2006-01-22
Comparing Cluster Interconnects: Fluent CFD Application Over Ethernet and InfiniBand: Adoption of commodity compute clusters has grown beyond the traditional high-performance compute market and is entering the enterprise data center. Efficiently designing cluster interconnect networks requires network professionals and cluster architects to select the appropriate technology. This decision is complicated by the fact that many applications have varying requirements and...; Tags: Ethernet, Network, Network Interface Card, Cisco Systems Inc., InfiniBand, Networking, PCI, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2005-11-01
Microsoft: Improvements in Vista's network peformance may be frightening (fast): Microsoft: Improvements in Vista's network peformance may be frightening fastFirst Improvement...If QOS is by default automatically switched off..At last ms windows is catching up with the REST of the world....``The new networking stack will do what's calld receive side scalling. Today, packet processing is done serially and regardless...; Tags: PCI, Construction, NETWORKING, Operating systems, Network technology, IP Filtering, Microsoft Windows, network, Microsoft Corp., PCI Express, window, network interface card, Microsoft Windows Vista; Discussion threads 2005-09-20
What's New in HP ProLiant Network Adapter Teaming: This white paper provides an overview of the latest ProLiant network teaming software for the HP NC-series Ethernet adapters NICs used in ProLiant servers. Additionally, it summarizes new features found in the latest releases of NC-series network drivers, the NICs that can be teamed under specific operating systems, and the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Network Interface Card, HP Compaq ProLiant, Networking, Servers, Hardware; White papers 2005-09-01
11 mln Wi-Fi units sold in Q3 2004: In Q3 2004, Wi-Fi unit shipments increased 12% from Q2 2004. 10.99 mln units shipped in Q3 2004 compared to 9.82 mln units in Q2 2004, according to Instat-MDR.Strong growth segments included 802.11g NICs and APs. The 802.11g standard is the faster successor to the popular 802.11b. An 802.11g access...; Tags: network interface card, IEEE 802.11g; Blog posts 2004-12-07
Maximizing Performance of a Gigabit Ethernet NIC Interface: Gigabit Ethernet connections create the greatest stress by far to Sun systems. Therefore, to get the maximum benefit from gigabit Ethernet NIC interface, users need to be aware of the added complications of Auto-negotiation as well as the new ways to ensure that users get the maximum performance from both...; Tags: Performance, Network Interface Card, Sun Microsystems Inc., Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking; White papers 2004-04-01
Using NIC Teaming to Achieve High Availability on Linux Platforms: Network interface card NIC teaming is one method for providing high availability and fault tolerance in servers. This white paper examines how Broadcom Advanced Server Program BASP and Intel Advanced Network Services ANS can be used to team NICs, and describes a study showing how NIC teaming was configured on...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Network Interface Card, High Availability, Linux, Networking, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2003-02-01
What is PXE?: This white paper answers common questions regarding Preboot Execution Environment PXE and outlines the benefits today's networked organizations can expect to gain from it. PXE is an open industry standard developed by a number of software and hardware vendors. It was initially designed by Intel, with input from several other...; Tags: Network Interface Card, 3Com Corp., PXE, Networking; White papers 2001-04-11
Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM): A digital subscriber line access multiplexer DSLAM delivers exceptionally high-speed data transmission over existing copper telephone lines. A DSLAM separates the voice-frequency signals from the high-speed data traffic and controls and routes digital subscriber line xDSL traffic between the subscriber's end-user equipment (router, modem, or network interface card [NIC]) and...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Network, Network Interface Card, DSLAM, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology; White papers