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4.6.6 Lab View Wired and Wireless Nic Information
4.6.6 Lab View Wired and Wireless Nic Information
Objectives
Part 1: Identify and Work with PC NICs
Part 2: Identify and Use the System Tray Network Icons
Background / Scenario
This lab requires you to determine the availability and status of the network interface cards (NICs) on the PC
that you use. Windows provides a number of ways to view and work with your NICs.
In this lab, you will access the NIC information of your PC and change the status of these cards.
Required Resources
1 PC (Windows with two NICs, wired and wireless, and a wireless connection)
Note: At the start of this lab, the wired Ethernet NIC in the PC was cabled to one of the integrated switch
ports on a wireless router and the Local Area Connection (wired) was enabled. The wireless NIC was
disabled initially. If the wired and wireless NICs are both enabled the PC will receive two different IP
addresses and the wireless NIC will take precedence.
Instructions
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Lab - View Wired and Wireless NIC Information
d. The wireless network connection Status window displays where you can view information about
your wireless connection.
What is the Service Set Identifier (SSID) for the wireless router of your connection?
Do you have multiple IPv4 DNS Servers listed? If so, why would multiple DNS Servers be listed?
Notice that the information displayed here is the same information that was displayed in the Network
Connection Details window in Step e.
g. Close the command window and the Network Connection Details window. This should return you back to
the Wi-Fi Status window. Click Wireless Properties.
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Lab - View Wired and Wireless NIC Information
d. Open a command window prompt and type ipconfig /all. Find your Ethernet adapter information and
compare this with the information displayed in the Network Connection Details window.
Windows IP Configuration
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Lab - View Wired and Wireless NIC Information
Reflection Question
Why would you activate more than one NIC on a PC?
- ultiple necks can be used if more than one part is needed for the PC one example of this would be if the PC
is being used as a proxy server
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