To enable communication among the servers, each server includes one or more network interface CARDS (NICs) that attach to an external networking infrastructure.

为了实现服务器间的通信，每个服务器都包含一个或者多个网络接口卡(NICs)，它们连接到一个外部网络设施上。

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Three of the virtual images (icb-tsam, icb-tuam, icb-itm) are equipped with two virtual Network Interface Cards (vNICs) and one of them (icb-nfs) has three vNICs.

其中三个映像（icb-tsam、icb-tuam 和 icb-itm）都各自配备了两个虚拟网络接口卡（vNIC），另外一个映像（icb-nfs）配备了三个虚拟网络接口卡。

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By running the command, we are able to locate all network interface CARDS reside at different slots of the server.

运行该命令，我们即可找到位于这台服务器不同插槽上的所有网卡。

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Brownell bought and configured all kinds of network interface cards, specialized switches and local networks.

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