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Realtek is the manufacturer of low cost network controller chips for ethernet and wireless networks. These chips are embedded on motherboards for providing networking features. Their chips are also used in discrete PCI and PCIe cards on ethernet and wireless hardware. Their chips are also used in many wireless USB adapters as well.

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Remote Procedure Call (RPC) Performance in a Local Area Network

We use a database that has separate client and server programs and they communicate with each other using RPC. We have one computer running Windows Server 2003 SP2 and six workstations running Windows 7 Pro 32bit. The network is a simple 100Mbps…
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Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 ethernet card randomly disconnecting

System information: kernel: latest OPENVZ kernel (2.6.32-042stab140.4) centos version: CentOS release 6.10 (Final) network card type: Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller…
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Why does my Realtek gigabit NIC not advertise 1000Mbit mode?

I currently have a NAS (openmediavault based on debian) with a Realtek gigabit NIC (ASRock Q1900-ITX on-board LAN), but it won't advertise that it is gigabit-capable. ethtool eth0 gives the following output: Settings for eth0: Supported ports: […
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Network adapter disappeared

Today I found myself in a strange situation where my Windows Server 2008r2 machine has internet connection while not showing any connections in 'network connections'. It does not show anywhere in Network and Sharing Center. The strange thing is that…
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Re-enable S5WakeOnLan setting for Realtek NIC driver that's disabled and hidden by inf file

To be able to wake up a PC from the S5 'shut down' state, the OS has to prepare the NIC during system shutdown. For Realtek NICs, this is done by the "Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller" driver, but only if the option S5WakeOnLan "Shutdown…
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rtl8139 driver in modern linux kernels - is it included?

I need to support the realtek rtl8139 network card - is this included in modern (> 3.0) linux kernels? do I have to load any modules or install anything?
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PTP support for RTL8125B-CG NIC in Ubuntu 20.04

I have an RTL8125B-CG NIC which, from what I gather from their product page, has hardware support for PTP. However, sudo ethtool -T does not detect any HW timestamping capabilities. I've tried with the r8169 driver and with the r8125 driver from…
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'make' command error while installing RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n driver

lspci -nn | grep -i network Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8723DE 802.11b/g/n PCIe Adapter [10ec:d723] I'm trying to install above wifi drivers in RHEL 7.2 (HP laptop), steps followed by the error message. yum install…
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Paranoid: What does binary NIC firmware do?

My server has a Realtek NIC, so I installed realtek-firmware package from Debian non-free. My question is: What could be possible (paranoid) attack / backdoor scenarios coming with the proprietary of it (e.g. could it send duplicates of all packets…
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realtek r8168 debian buster lost connexions on add-on card

We want to use 2 double port ethetnet card in lenovo M720e. cards are dexlan ref FG-ENW02C-1-UC04 / pcie 1x dual giga ports. we install debian 10. we change grub so we have ethX and not enpXs0. first card on pcie x16 port second card on pcie x1…
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rtk8192ee wifi firmare stops loading after ifenslave setup attempt (Debian 10)

I tried setting up Mode 0 NIC bonding using ifenslave between my Ethernet and WiFi cards on Debian 10. After numerous ifconfig wls1 up/down, I was able to set up Bond0 until it stopped working. After undoing the setup, I realized ifconfig wls1 up…
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Magic packet (Wake up on LAN) not send from Realtek RTL8111E (windows)

Trying to send magic packet from NIC Realtek RTL8111E on Motherboard MSi B75MA-P45 (using wol.exe) and nothing. Server does not wake up but magic packet from other PC, with other NIC (using wol.exe) successfully wakes up the server. How to wake up…
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