Ethernet card Problem

[Richard Villa]

I was just assuming that he was saying that he couldn't connect, and 
therefore didn't have an IP address assigned.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Ethernet card Problem


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> Yes, he could do that, but by doing so, he'd be pinging his loopback
> interface, which would in no way help him diagnose his ethernet card
> problem. Assuming his ethernet card gets an IP assigned to it, he
> could then ping that IP, thus testing the functionality of the
> ethernet card.
>
> Greg
>
>
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> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:29:40PM -0500, Richard Villa wrote:
>> He could try and ping the machine itself. 127.0.0.0
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