Ethernet Adapter

Your computer needs a network Ethernet adapter card, dial-up modem, or wireless Wifi card to connect your computer to the internet.

An Ethernet adapter is a piece of hardware that allows a device or workstation to access an Ethernet connection. Ethernet adapters can be add-ons that go into an expansion board, or they can be directly installed in the motherboard of a computer or USB device. [source https://www.techopedia.com/definition/26783/ethernet-adapter]

Connect the Ethernet Cable from the router to your computer system, which can stand as a client if you are using only one computer or server if you are networking more than one system, make sure that your computer has an inbuilt Ethernet adapter on the Motherboard or a separate Ethernet card, you can also install an Ethernet Card into an available internal expansion slot or you can alternatively use a USB - Based Ethernet Adapter instead.


Powerline ethernet adapters are not a brand new technology, but they've come into prominence with the need for high speed home networking because of gaming systems, cable and dish TV, and voice over IP applications which require fast network connections.

if a user has a computer that is directly connected to a wall-based Ethernet port and wishes to connect a second computer to that same Internet connection, he/she can use a USB to Ethernet adapter to bridge an Internet connection between the two computers via the primary computer's USB port.

EtherChannel and IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation are network port aggregation technologies that allow several Ethernet adapters to be aggregated together to form a single pseudo Ethernet device. Apple USB Ethernet Adapter lets you use your USB 2.0 port on your Mac to connect to the Internet. 

The D-Link DUB-E100 is a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 10/100Mbps Fast Ethernet Adapter specifically designed to plug into an available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port on a desktop or laptop PC running Microsoft Windows.


With Shared Ethernet Adapters on the Virtual Server, virtual Ethernet adapters on client logical partitions can send and receive outside network traffic.

When adding an adapter at runtime, note that different Ethernet adapters support different capabilities (for example, the ability to do checksum offload, to use private segments, to do large send, and so forth). These are basically in-memory connections between LPARs through Virtual Ethernet Adapters. 

Shared Ethernet adapter


 A shared Ethernet adapter is a virtual input/output (I/O) server component that connects a physical Ethernet adapter to one or more virtual Ethernet adapters. If shared Ethernet adapters are on a virtual I/O server's logical partition, Ethernet adapters on client logical partitions will be able to access data beyond network traffic. Shared Ethernet adapters also facilitate easy communication with stand-alone servers and logical partitions on other systems, eliminating the need for an external network.

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