Monitoring Network Interface Card and Cable Failures

The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) for a single Network Interface Card (NIC) can be many years. However, in a large computing environment, you are still likely to experience LAN card failures. This section shows how you can monitor LAN card failures, verify that physical cables are set up properly, and discover related problems, such as a link disconnection. You can also see how to identify the type of network link being used.

This section refers to monitoring the networking components that correspond roughly to the physical and data link layers of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model. This section also shows how to obtain a LAN's status and statistics, the LAN station addresses ...

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