Chapter 11. Configuring network adapters

 

This chapter covers

  • Network adapters, configuration, and protocols
  • Managing network adapters
  • Configuring DHCP and static addresses
  • Managing entries for DNS and WINS servers
  • Displaying the IPv4 routing table

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.

Note

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.

11.1. Discovering network adapters

 
 

11.2. Configuring network adapters

 
 

11.3. Enabling and setting network addresses

 
 

11.4. Configuring network services

 
 
 

11.5. Summary

 
 
 
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