On Dec 1, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Mike C. <[email protected]> wrote:

> 1. Run the command  "ping 127.0.0.1" from the command line while not
> connected to any networks. This will test the NIC, the NIC drivers and the
> tcp/.ip stack.

Are you sure about that? I was under the impression that no NIC is required to 
have a loopback (127.x.x.x) network interface. It's a software only interface. 
The only thing that will test is the tcp/ip stack.

Russell Johnson
[email protected]



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