A network administrator installs a new web server and notices that the server was configured with one quad-port NIC. In order to properly provision the hardware resources, which of the following…

A quad-port NIC contains four distinct physical Ethernet ports, each functioning as an independent network interface. Assigning at least one IP address per port allows each port to participate in network communication separately, fully utilizing all four hardware interfaces as intended.

Assigning multiple IP addresses (IP aliasing) to a single port uses only one of the four physical ports and leaves the remaining three completely unprovisioned.

Assigning one IP address to the quad-port NIC as a whole does not address all four individual ports and fails to properly provision the available hardware resources.

A single IP address cannot be assigned identically to four separate active ports in a standard configuration; that would create an addressing conflict unless the ports are bonded into a single logical interface, which changes the architecture.