HowTo Setup A Wireless Notebook With Multiple Network Interface Adapters Using: "nstnetcfg"

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This page demonstrates how to setup networking with an NST wireless notebook that is configured with multiple network interface adapters for performing simultaneous network computing surveillance tasks. The NST script: "nstnetcfg" command line software utility was designed to make this task easy to accomplish using a combination of both the "NetworkManager" and "network" services.

Note: One of the design goals of the "NetworkManager" service was to make setting a wireless adapter in Linux a much simpler process.

The diagram below will be used as a reference for setting up a wireless notebook configured with multiple network interface adapters using NST. The notebook is shown with USB 3.0 Gigabit NIC attachments to the network infrastructure. This configuration is typical for a Network Security Professional to perform network surveillance tasks and penetration analysis tests.

A Multi-Network Interface Adapter NST Notebook Configuration
Note: The USB 3.0 Specification defines the "SuperSpeed" mode with a signalling speed of 5 Gb/s and a usable data rate of up to 4 Gb/s. Based on this, a USB 3.0 Gigabit NIC Adapter should be capable of providing Full Line Rate Gigabit Data to the NST system.