[ale] NIC

[James P. Kinney III]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:19 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:04 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > Does this imply a damaged NIC?
> > 
> > >#arp -a
> > ? (1.2.3.4) at <incomplete> on eth0
> 
> Not necessarily, could just be a bad connection (missing cable, other
> end down, etc).  The link layer needs to be active in order for there to
> be anything in the ARP cache.  Think about it for a second.  ;-)

Well, when pinging the 1.2.3.4 address, the connection light on the
gizmo would blink in sync with the ping.

Turns out the manual was wrong on the box. The default IP address after
a reset was NOT 1.2.3.4 but 10.0.0.1. (for the morbidly curious, it's a
Belkin IP console kvm switch). I was able to get in with the serial port
and reset the IP address.
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
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