Chapter 11. Configuring network adapters
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Networking is the glue that holds your infrastructure together. If the network isn’t working or configured correctly the users can’t connect to the applications and you can’t administer the systems. Your primary concern is the configuration of the network adapters in your servers. This chapter presents a number of techniques you can use to test the configuration and configure the network adapters.
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The WMI networking classes, and especially their methods, discussed in this chapter only work with IPv4. As of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, WMI isn’t able to configure IPv6 settings.
Table 11.1 presents the WMI classes that you can use to work with network adapters. You’ll be using many of them in this chapter. The Win32_NetworkAdapter and Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration classes can cause some confusion. The first one deals with the physical adapter and the second with the configuration of the device.