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• Limit scope of Network Adapters?

  Is it possible for me to limit the scope of my network adapters? The situation is this: I have an active LAN connection, AND I'm tethering my phone. Both have internet access, but only the LAN c…

• Loads of fake network adapters?

  When I run ipconfig I have 27 network adapters, but I only have 2 or 3. Why does this happen and how can I clean it up? I use a VPN connection and Remote Desktop.

• Differentiate VMware network adapter from physical network adapters

  I have to differentiate between the real addresses and the VM addresses using any Windows API. I'm using Getadaptersaddresses API to populate a list of ipaddresses for the local machine. I need to e…

• Powerline network adapters vs wireless range extender

  My home office is upstairs and I do not get good wireless reception there (1-2 bars, max ~18Mbps network speed, and speedtest.net tops out at around 2Mbps). About 6 feet away from the metal spiral s…

• Network load balancing with bridged NIC adapters

  I am having problems when trying to create a cluster by choosing the network bridge i created for my server. The cluster will return a host not found while configuring at the last step of a clusteri…

• IP usage with multiple network adapters

  This is a general networking question. Suppose that I have a web server in a machine XYZ with 2 or more physical network adapters with IP's A, B, C and D. If I access the web application in th…

• Two network adapters with the same ip

  I have two network adapters that use the same ip range, but are different networks. I tried this but it didn't work: iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p all -d 1.2.3.0/8 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.…

• VMware virtual network adapters and Windows Firewall

  I am running VMware Workstation 7.1.4 on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1-U (x64). Aside from the physical network adapter, I have created a single virtual network adapter (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter f…

• VMware virtual network adapters and Windows Firewall

  I am running VMware Workstation 7.1.4 on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1-U (x64). Aside from the physical network adapter, I have created a single virtual network adapter (VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter f…

• listing network shares with python

  if I explicitly attempt to list the contents of a shared directory on a remote host using python on a windows machine, the operation succeeds, for example, the following snippet works fine: os.li…