Testing Ethernet Ports

2005-09-01 Thread Ames, Jonathan (N-ENSCO)
Hi, Can someone give me a hand with this? A PC has two ethernet ports, both directly on the motherboard. Can I connect them externally with an ethernet cable and ping from one port to the other to test them both? How? Another PC has the two ports listed above, plus an additional ethernet

Re: Testing Ethernet Ports

2005-09-01 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:36:04AM -0400, Ames, Jonathan (N-ENSCO) wrote: Can someone give me a hand with this? Here goes... A PC has two ethernet ports, both directly on the motherboard. Can I connect them externally with an ethernet cable and ping from one port to the other to test them

Re: Testing Ethernet Ports

2005-09-01 Thread Barney Wolff
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:58:14AM -0500, Will Maier wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:36:04AM -0400, Ames, Jonathan (N-ENSCO) wrote: Can someone give me a hand with this? Here goes... A PC has two ethernet ports, both directly on the motherboard. Can I connect them externally with an

Re: Testing Ethernet Ports

2005-09-01 Thread Dave+Seddon
Greetings, You need a seperate routing table. Try using Xen (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/), or there's a patch floating around for FreeBSD4.9. Dave Barney Wolff writes: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:58:14AM -0500, Will Maier wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:36:04AM