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Learn how to create, change settings for, and delete a network interface. A network interface enables an Azure Virtual Machine to communicate with internet, Azure, and on-premises resources. When creating a virtual machine using the Azure portal, the portal creates one network interface with default settings for you. You may instead choose to create network interfaces with custom settings and add one or more network interfaces to a virtual machine when you create it. You may also want to change default network interface settings for an existing network interface. This article explains how to create a network interface with custom settings, change existing settings, such as network filter (network security group) assignment, subnet assignment, DNS server settings, and IP forwarding, and delete a network interface.
If you need to add, change, or remove IP addresses for a network interface, see Manage IP addresses. If you need to add network interfaces to, or remove network interfaces from virtual machines, see Add or remove network interfaces.
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Change Windows MAC Address. You can change the MAC address for the network card in Windows pretty easily following the steps below. Step 1: Click on Start, then Control Panel, then Network Connections, and right-click on the network connection you want to change the MAC address for and select Properties. NOTE: This tool cannot change MAC address of Microsoft Network Bridge. Network Bridge will automatically use the original MAC address of the first NIC added into bridge with the first octet of MAC address set to 0x02. For further help, Visit Technitium Help See Q1: How to Change MAC Address of a NIC? But it is not true. Changing MAC or Physical address of your computer is very simple. MAC (Media Access Control) address, Ethernet Hardware Address (EHA), hardware address, adapter address or physical address is a quasi-unique identifier assigned to most network adapters or network interface cards (NICs) by the manufacturer for identification.
This article has been updated to use the new Azure PowerShell Azmodule. You can still use the AzureRM module, which will continue to receive bug fixes until at least December 2020.To learn more about the new Az module and AzureRM compatibility, seeIntroducing the new Azure PowerShell Az module. ForAz module installation instructions, see Install Azure PowerShell.
Complete the following tasks before completing steps in any section of this article:
The account you log into, or connect to Azure with, must be assigned to the network contributor role or to a custom role that is assigned the appropriate actions listed in Permissions.
Create a network interface
When creating a virtual machine using the Azure portal, the portal creates a network interface with default settings for you. If you'd rather specify all your network interface settings, you can create a network interface with custom settings and attach the network interface to a virtual machine when creating the virtual machine (using PowerShell or the Azure CLI). You can also create a network interface and add it to an existing virtual machine (using PowerShell or the Azure CLI). To learn how to create a virtual machine with an existing network interface or to add to, or remove network interfaces from existing virtual machines, see Add or remove network interfaces. Before creating a network interface, you must have an existing virtual network in the same location and subscription you create a network interface in.
The portal doesn't provide the option to assign a public IP address to the network interface when you create it, though the portal does create a public IP address and assign it to a network interface when you create a virtual machine using the portal. To learn how to add a public IP address to the network interface after creating it, see Manage IP addresses. If you want to create a network interface with a public IP address, you must use the CLI or PowerShell to create the network interface.
The portal doesn't provide the option to assign the network interface to application security groups when creating a network interface, but the Azure CLI and PowerShell do. You can assign an existing network interface to an application security group using the portal however, as long as the network interface is attached to a virtual machine. To learn how to assign a network interface to an application security group, see Add to or remove from application security groups.
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Azure assigns a MAC address to the network interface only after the network interface is attached to a virtual machine and the virtual machine is started the first time. You cannot specify the MAC address that Azure assigns to the network interface. The MAC address remains assigned to the network interface until the network interface is deleted or the private IP address assigned to the primary IP configuration of the primary network interface is changed. To learn more about IP addresses and IP configurations, see Manage IP addresses
Commands
View network interface settings
You can view and change most settings for a network interface after it's created. The portal does not display the DNS suffix or application security group membership for the network interface. You can use the PowerShell or Azure CLI commands to view the DNS suffix and application security group membership.
Commands
If an IPv6 address is assigned to a network interface, the PowerShell output returns the fact that the address is assigned, but it doesn't return the assigned address. Similarly, the CLI returns the fact that the address is assigned, but returns null in its output for the address.
Change DNS servers
The DNS server is assigned by the Azure DHCP server to the network interface within the virtual machine operating system. The DNS server assigned is whatever the DNS server setting is for a network interface. To learn more about name resolution settings for a network interface, see Name resolution for virtual machines. The network interface can inherit the settings from the virtual network, or use its own unique settings that override the setting for the virtual network.
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Enable or disable IP forwarding
IP forwarding enables the virtual machine a network interface is attached to:
The setting must be enabled for every network interface that is attached to the virtual machine that receives traffic that the virtual machine needs to forward. A virtual machine can forward traffic whether it has multiple network interfaces or a single network interface attached to it. While IP forwarding is an Azure setting, the virtual machine must also run an application able to forward the traffic, such as firewall, WAN optimization, and load balancing applications. When a virtual machine is running network applications, the virtual machine is often referred to as a network virtual appliance. You can view a list of ready to deploy network virtual appliances in the Azure Marketplace. IP forwarding is typically used with user-defined routes. To learn more about user-defined routes, see User-defined routes.
Commands
Change subnet assignment
You can change the subnet, but not the virtual network, that a network interface is assigned to.
Commands
Add to or remove from application security groups
You can only add a network interface to, or remove a network interface from an application security group using the portal if the network interface is attached to a virtual machine. You can use PowerShell or the Azure CLI to add a network interface to, or remove a network interface from an application security group, whether the network interface is attached to a virtual machine or not. Learn more about Application security groups and how to create an application security group.
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Associate or dissociate a network security group
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Delete a network interface
You can delete a network interface as long as it's not attached to a virtual machine. If a network interface is attached to a virtual machine, you must first place the virtual machine in the stopped (deallocated) state, then detach the network interface from the virtual machine. To detach a network interface from a virtual machine, complete the steps in Detach a network interface from a virtual machine. You cannot detach a network interface from a virtual machine if it's the only network interface attached to the virtual machine however. A virtual machine must always have at least one network interface attached to it. Deleting a virtual machine detaches all network interfaces attached to it, but does not delete the network interfaces.
When you delete a network interface, any MAC or IP addresses assigned to it are released.
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Resolve connectivity issues
If you are unable to communicate to or from a virtual machine, network security group security rules or routes effective for a network interface, may be causing the problem. You have the following options to help resolve the issue:
View effective security rules
The effective security rules for each network interface attached to a virtual machine are a combination of the rules you've created in a network security group and default security rules. Understanding the effective security rules for a network interface may help you determine why you're unable to communicate to or from a virtual machine. You can view the effective rules for any network interface that is attached to a running virtual machine.
The IP flow verify feature of Azure Network Watcher can also help you determine if security rules are preventing communication between a virtual machine and an endpoint. To learn more, see IP flow verify.
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View effective routes
The effective routes for the network interfaces attached to a virtual machine are a combination of default routes, any routes you've created, and any routes propagated from on-premises networks via BGP through an Azure virtual network gateway. Understanding the effective routes for a network interface may help you determine why you're unable to communicate to or from a virtual machine. You can view the effective routes for any network interface that is attached to a running virtual machine.
The next hop feature of Azure Network Watcher can also help you determine if routes are preventing communication between a virtual machine and an endpoint. To learn more, see Next hop.
Commands
Permissions
To perform tasks on network interfaces, your account must be assigned to the network contributor role or to a custom role that is assigned the appropriate permissions listed in the following table:
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Applies to: Windows Server 2016
When you configure a NIC Team with switch independent mode and either address hash or dynamic load distribution, the team uses the media access control (MAC) address of the primary NIC Team member on outbound traffic. The primary NIC Team member is a network adapter selected by the operating system from the initial set of team members. It is the first team member to bind to the team after you create it or after the host computer is restarted. Because the primary team member might change in a non-deterministic manner at each boot, NIC disable/enable action, or other reconfiguration activities, the primary team member might change, and the MAC address of the team might vary.
In most situations this doesn't cause problems, but there are a few cases where issues might arise.
If the primary team member is removed from the team and then placed into operation there may be a MAC address conflict. To resolve this conflict, disable and then enable the team interface. The process of disabling and then enabling the team interface causes the interface to select a new MAC address from the remaining team members, thereby eliminating the MAC address conflict.
You can set the MAC address of the NIC team to a specific MAC address by setting it in the primary team interface, just as you can do when configuring the MAC address of any physical NIC.
MAC address use on transmitted packets
When you configure a NIC Team in switch independent mode and either address hash or dynamic load distribution, the packets from a single source (such as a single VM) is simultaneously distributed across multiple team members. To prevent the switches from getting confused and to prevent MAC flapping alarms, the source MAC address is replaced with a different MAC address on the frames transmitted on team members other than the primary team member. Because of this, each team member uses a different MAC address, and MAC address conflicts are prevented unless and until failure occurs.
When a failure is detected on the primary NIC, the NIC Teaming software starts using the primary team member's MAC address on the team member that is chosen to serve as the temporary primary team member (i.e., the one that will now appear to the switch as the primary team member). This change only applies to traffic that was going to be sent on the primary team member with the primary team member's MAC address as its source MAC address. Other traffic continues to be sent with whatever source MAC address it would have used prior to the failure.
Following are lists that describe NIC Teaming MAC address replacement behavior, based on how the team is configured:
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