On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, David Gardi wrote:
> It depends. If you ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 then no.
> If you have set up your NIC with an IP other than the loopback
> ie 192.168.0.1, and ifconfig ethx shows it together with a MAC address,
> and you ping that, then yes.
David,
Wrong! _All_ locally defined ip-addresses are internally routed to
lo. Pinging any ip address that a host is setup to receive packets for,
doesnt prove a thing about the functioning of the NIC.
As an experiment, ping any non-lo ip-address on your system. If
ping reports n packets Tx'ed and n packets Rx'ed, your lo interfaces RX
and TX counts will have increased by 2n.
Regards,
Jor-el
