[ale] OT: Windows NIC problem...

[Chris Fowler]

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 18:32, David S. Jackson wrote:

> Thanks, all, for the good ideas!  I forgot to mention that I had
> validated the cable and also pinged the local (non loopback) interface.  

You can ping local all day but that just verifies the TCP/IP plumbing in
the kernel is operational.

One thing I do is ping the broadcast address of the network.  I then
expect to see hosts other than me respond back.  If that works then your
network seems to be function correctly.

I have had issues with the cheap 5 port 10/100 Switches at MicroCenter. 
The switches can go stupid and not work correctly.  Usually I fix this
by recycling power on the switch.  but that is the price you pay for
cheap crap.


> But if the physical layer isn't there, then it's probably got to be the
> NIC.  I needed an excuse to get some more PCI NICs around the office
> anyway.  :-)  Like (Joe?) says, no blinkie, no talkie.
> 
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