Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > well, I can't ping my gateway! I've just installed a basic potato system > > and I > > want to continue the installation via internet. The configuration of the NIC > > was done during the inst

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread Jor-el
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_

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > well, I can't ping my gateway! I've just installed a basic potato system and I > want to continue the installation via internet. The configuration of the NIC > was done during the installation of potato. After rebooting the system the > message "et

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? No, but it does mean lo (opposed to eth0) is working correctly. If you can ping your gateway, *then* your NIC is working correctly. Th

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? No, but it does mean lo (opposed to eth0) is working correctly. If you can ping your gateway, *then* your NIC is working correctly. -- Baloo

Re: ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread David Gardi
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? TIA Marcelo 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

ping myself

2001-12-28 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hi! If I can ping myself it means that the NIC is correctly installed? TIA Marcelo -- Marcelo Chiapparini DFT-IF/UERJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]