[ale] NIC

[Bob Toxen]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:04:31PM -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Does this imply a damaged NIC?

> >#arp -a
> ? (1.2.3.4) at <incomplete> on eth0
NO.  It means that the local system (which you are running "arp -a" on
tried to to an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request to IP 1.2.3.4
and that nobody responded.  The cause can be anything from the 1.2.3.4
system being down to a broken network to a bad set of network routes
on the local system to a broken NIC on either system to the wrong
NIC driver loaded on one system or the other.

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