Patent ID: 8412919
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. 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; and restarting the computer, and the disabled NIC ports stopping performing data transmission with outside of the computer.