-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 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 - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGO5jy7s9z/XlyUyARAtA1AJ0Sql/rrvD4edWSQyQ1dPXOWIwMeACglTW8 F4Hzg+9kR4OF1yZTi83ydek= =nCnV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
