On 12/01/2012 11:27 PM, Russell Johnson wrote: > 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] > That is my understanding as well. You always have have "localhost" ie loopback even with no NIC hardware installed. This is used, for example, to access the CUPS printer web interface (http://localhost:631 -This assumes you set up /etc/hosts with "127.0.0.1 localhost" during installation/configuration).
The only way to test the NIC is to load the driver module, see if ifconfig seems an interface and then try to set up the interface. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
