SuperlativeTheory Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I have a media server that I recently installed a front-bay LCD in. The idea was that it displays CPU and RAM usage, and the current network up and down speeds. The resource monitoring worked absolutely fine, however the net speeds are proving to be something of an issue. The software only lets you pick adapter numbers ranging from 1-9. Running route print shows that my ethernet adapter is listed as adapter no. 12. Is there any way of altering this? I realise this is hardly essential system maintenance, but it'd be nice to get this working. (Or, if anyone knows of an alternative to LCD Smartie that would do the trick, that could also work?) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1286586-changing-nic-adapter-number-in-windows/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 22, 2016 MVC Share Posted January 22, 2016 what are you looking at that says your #12? you talking this index number? C:\>route print =========================================================================== Interface List 26...00 ff ee 16 b9 3c ......TAP-Windows Adapter V9 19...00 ff 90 66 3a 89 ......Juniper Network Connect Virtual Adapter 15...54 33 9d a4 80 10 ......Check Point Virtual Network Adapter For SecureClient 11...3c 97 0e 99 df 75 ......Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection 14...a4 17 31 f9 fe 5b ......1x1 11b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter 1...........................Software Loopback Interface 1 =========================================================================== another way to do it is C:\>wmic nic get name, index Index Name 0 WAN Miniport (SSTP) 1 WAN Miniport (IKEv2) 2 WAN Miniport (L2TP) 3 WAN Miniport (PPTP) 4 WAN Miniport (PPPOE) 5 WAN Miniport (IPv6) 6 WAN Miniport (Network Monitor) 7 Intel(R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection 8 WAN Miniport (IP) 9 TAP-Windows Adapter V9 10 RAS Async Adapter 11 Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) 13 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter 14 1x1 11b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter 15 Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter 16 Check Point Virtual Network Adapter For SecureClient 17 SecuRemote Miniport 18 SecuRemote Miniport 19 Microsoft 6to4 Adapter 20 SecuRemote Miniport 21 SecuRemote Miniport 22 SecuRemote Miniport 23 Juniper Network Connect Virtual Adapter 24 SecuRemote Miniport 34 Microsoft Teredo Tunneling Adapter What you notice is these don't always match up.. See in route print shows the index of my intel gig as 11, but in the wmic shows it as 7 Yet another way C:\>netsh int ipv4 show interfaces Idx Met MTU State Name --- ---------- ---------- ------------ --------------------------- 1 50 4294967295 connected Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1 14 5 1500 disconnected Wireless Network Connection 26 20 1500 disconnected Local Area Connection 11 10 1500 connected Local 15 0 1500 disconnected Local Area Connection* 11 19 5 1400 disconnected Local Area Connection* 17 Off the top I don't know of a way to change this without deleting interfaces and letting it reindex... Let me look about.. hmmm how to reindex those? But I would be curious to see your output of the wmic and netsh method.. Can we see your output, your best best would be to prob uninstall your interfaces and only install the one your wanting first so that its index is lower, and then adding your other ones.. You might be able to directly edit the registry to change these... But can not really play around too much with this machine - need it to work Let me see if can get the index to change on a vm... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1286586-changing-nic-adapter-number-in-windows/#findComment-597244914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperlativeTheory Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 Sure, here's the output of all three commands: I was originally going on the output or route print. Given that the netsh output also shows it as 12, I'm assuming that it's most likely going to be 12. I'm guessing that the easiest solution here would be to simply uninstall the WAN Miniport interfaces? Although in terms of reindexing, I have no idea. Is that something that Windows would do automatically when it boots? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1286586-changing-nic-adapter-number-in-windows/#findComment-597245098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted January 22, 2016 MVC Share Posted January 22, 2016 Its just a guess that removing the miniports for stuff your not using like PPPoe, etc.. Not sure it will reindex.. But if you remove them all and just add your nic back you would hope it would reindex.. Will have to test on a vm to see. Odd that wmic shows it at 7, while route print shows it at 12... Did you try picking 7 in your setup to see if you get any data? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1286586-changing-nic-adapter-number-in-windows/#findComment-597245112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperlativeTheory Posted January 22, 2016 Author Share Posted January 22, 2016 (edited) Spoiler Nothing on 7 unfortunately. Also, it would appear that the most I can do is disable the WAN Miniport interfaces in device manager, which seems to makes zero difference... Uninstalling them does absolutely nothing, device manager will refresh quickly, and the interface will still be there. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1286586-changing-nic-adapter-number-in-windows/#findComment-597245126 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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