Need a script to find the onboard nic which are broadcom?

[meistermn]

How can i get the onboard network cards of the servers from dell and hp which are from vendor broadcom?

[LucD]

You could try my Name that hardware script.

[Hoschi201110141]

Have not tryed it yet but i think:

Check the MAC adresses of some of these NIC's

MAC adresses woud be given to vendors in "ranges".

So... are the NIC's all from Broadcom, you have a god

chance that the first three octets 00:00:86:xx:xx:xx are

always the same. Its one of the Broadcom - MAC ranges.

Hypotese: Maybe you can catch these NIC's by the MAC adresses.

[avlieshout · Accepted solution]

You can determine the broadcom nic by the driver that's loaded for a nic.

Try this oneliner:

Get-VMHost | Get-VMHostNetworkAdapter | 
  Where {$_.ExtensionData.Driver -like "bnx*"} |
  Select VMHost, DeviceName, Mac, @{N="Pci";E={$_.ExtensionData.Pci}},
    @{N="Driver";E={$_.ExtensionData.Driver}} | ft