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US 8,412,919 B2Granted
Method for controlling multi-port network interface card
AssigneeInventec Corporation
InventorPeng-Fang Luo
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Abstract
A method for controlling a multi-port Network Interface Card (NIC) is provided. In a computer using the multi-port NIC with a plurality of NIC ports, a plurality of control options is set into a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) setup menu, so that a user individually controls the NIC ports. Furthermore, due to the characteristic that after a reference code process in the BIOS restarts a system, the set of hardware becomes effective, an action of controlling the NIC ports is set before a reference code process restarts the system.
Claims6
A method for controlling a multi-port Network Interface Card (NIC), comprising:
- providing a multi-port NIC in a computer, wherein the multi-port NIC comprises a plurality of NIC ports;
- providing a Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) with a memory, defining an address space in the memory, and establishing an option catalog in the address space, wherein the option catalog comprises a plurality of disable instructions corresponding to the NIC ports;
- providing a control unit, wherein the control unit is electrically connected to the memory of the BIOS and the multi-port NIC, and generates a plurality of control signals corresponding to the NIC ports;
- starting the computer, and the control signals respectively disabling the NIC ports corresponding to the disable instructions, when the BIOS detects that the disable instructions are effective;
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- restarting the computer, and the disabled NIC ports stopping performing data transmission with outside of the computer.
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