Re: Can ping router!

In message <f3ed51174f.Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Brian Howlett <news-spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 23 Aug, Dave Higton wrote:

In message <bed8fc164f.Brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Brian Howlett
<news-spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

I'm glad to hear you've finally got to the root of the problem. In
hindsight, there's a simple test to see if a network card is working
properly, which is to ping the card itself, using *ping 127.0.0.1

[snip]

I don't think that will tell you if the card itself is working.
127.0.0.1 is handled entirely in software - the IP stack. It doesn't
turn on a hardware loopback.

Aaargh! Of course, this only proves that the TCP/IP stack is set up
and working. I meant to say that pinging your own IP address, e.g.
192.168.0.11, will give a response which shows the NIC is working (or
not...)

No, that doesn't do anything different from 127.0.0.1 - again,
it's all handled in the IP stack.

Dave
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