Re: ping reply without OS

1997-01-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, > My real complain is when I read "System halted", my assumption has > always been that the cpu has executed the x86 HALT instruction . Why > not, it consumes a lot less enery in this state. It does. But on the other hand interrupt handler may still be active. On linux for example t

Re: ping reply without OS

1997-01-05 Thread Jonas Bofjall
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Huh? Linux will issue HLT instructions when not doing anything else. > However, HLT does not really halt the machine, like when you're finished > using it, but only until the next interrupt. Yes, HLT does lower > power consumption. On a Cyrix 6x86 CPU, w

Re: ping reply without OS

1997-01-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
>Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo > requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume > that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does > no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is wel

Re: ping reply without OS

1997-01-05 Thread Ioannis Tambouras
Having read that the interface card is capable to reply to icmp echo requests, my next question should be this: Why does does the card assume that we are using the internet protocols? (On a side note, this does no good to those who ping the machine and conclude that everything is well with

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-05 Thread Kendrick Myatt
This could be the result of the ARP cache in your router (or on your machine if you are running some routed type thing...) not expiring before the other server happened to come back up. I can't remember how long this is, and it _may_ be vendor specific when it comes to the hardware side. Regard

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Dale Scheetz
Most network cards are designed to releave as much load from the local processor as possible. Thus, by only knowing the local ip address. The card can forward packets down line, respond to pings, and do other housekeeping chores without bothering the local machine. So, as long as the card is not re

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Adriano Nagelschmidt Rodrigues
Mario Olimpio de Menezes writes: > I experienced such situation when my nameserver was down for a > warm reboot, so that I couldn't telnet to it, but ping got response from > the machine during the reboot. I can't explain such situation, but it is > quite strange to me. Nothing strange ab

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Eloy A. Paris
> Yes, but I've seen it quite often. The symptoms are you can't connect with > anything, rlogin, telnet or such programs; however the machine gladly replies > to ping. > > I think the situation arises when an OS _has_ been running on the machine > and then crashes or hangs; in this state the ethe

Re: ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Martin Stromberg wrote: > > > > > ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running. > > > > Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request > > the network card has to have an assigned IP address... > > > > -- > > > > Eloy A.

ping reply without OS (was: Re: Unidentified subject!)

1997-01-03 Thread Martin Stromberg
> > > ping response can be handled by network hardware without OS running. > > Uhhmmm... hadn't heard of this ever before. To reply to a ping request > the network card has to have an assigned IP address... > > -- > > Eloy A. Paris > Information Technology Department > Rockwell Automation de V