On Mon, 07 Feb 2000, Jiju Thomas Mathew used an e-pen to say :
>> ALL the three (ping/telnet/ftp) work when I connect
>> the 2 NICs within a single m/c but I suspect (?) the
Jiju said:
>with one NIC enough, if ping/telnet/ftp is working to the 127.0.0.1
>as well as the IP, then the NIC is supposedly okay.
>try acquiring a peer utp cable and do the tests
Well,
That might not be exactly a sound inference. When you are using a
loopback interface, ie 127.0.0.1, the datastream is not channelised via
the Physical layer (ie NIC). The data is instead routed into the same
machine from ther Network layer.. so I do not see any reason why an OK
performance with 127.0.0.1 (ping, telnet etc) proves that the card is
healthy.
Infact you can ping/telnet all the way to glory at 127.0.0.1 even
if you do not have an NIC.
BTW: What card are u (the guy with the problem, not Jiju) using ?
Regards
Shourya
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