On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Bjornson, Matt wrote:
> Do you need a NIC to successfully ping 127.0.01? I am a LINUX networking
> newbie? I have not yet installed a NIC and am not able to ping
> 127.0.0.1...is that a problem?
yup, that's a problem. being able to ping 127.0.0.1 is simply
a test that you have TCP/IP software installed, nothing more.
did you make sure you installed networking software?
if so, check the file /etc/hosts. it should resemble
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
rday
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