====== Hardware - NICS - Check for Fake NICS ======

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<WRAP alert>
**ALERT:** Your NIC could be fake.

</WRAP>

Verify it is a proper Intel NIC:

  * Verify using [[http://verify.yottamark.com/|YottaMark Code]]
  * Verify using [[https://verifyintel.bradyid.com/|BradyID Code]]

<WRAP info>
**NOTE:** After March 2019, some manufactured Retail Adapters started using the BradyID* sticker instead of the YottaMark*.

As there are many Retail Adapters already manufactured with YottaMark, expect a mix of both BradyID and YottaMark for the foreseeable future.

</WRAP>


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===== References =====

See https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...007074/network-and-i-o/ethernet-products.html on how to validate YottaMark and BradyID stickers on the NIC.