Are you trained by your company?

[255-255-255-0.livejournal.com]

Are you trained by your company?

I was just wondering because I called my local ISP last night due to a dropped connection.

I had a bit of a chat to the bloke who was answering their support calls.
He suggested, (among other things) I could have a damaged NIC.
I pinged the NIC and got a response, pinged my router and got a response.
I told him this.

Him : “So how do you ping your NIC?”
Me: Using the ping command (Duh) < I didn’t actually say Duh ;-)
Him : “What’s the address, do I just type in PING NIC ?

Comments

[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

Doesn't that just test your TCP/IP configuration? I think you can ping 127.0.0.1 with no adapter present..

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

yeah, it just means the NIC is installed. I've had strange problems occur where uninstalling and reinstalling the NIC to a different PCI slot fixes strange synch no surf problems, but it pings to 127.0.0.1 just fine.

[255-255-255-0.livejournal.com]

Yes you are right, I hang my head in shame, slope of to a corner a look embarrassed for at least a month.

Pinging 127.0.0.1 does only give loop-back response to test IP configuration.
I don’t know who I was listening to all those years ago, it just worked and I believed ever since ….......

I'd best get it over with before anyone else says it:


Laugh @ >>>>>>>>>>> 255_255_255_0 <<<<<< What a t00l


In penance for my total 127.0.0.1 noobness check out this link:

http://www.crisscross.com/forum/Worlds_worst_hacker%25_IRC_t%20ranscript/m_422436/tm.htm

It even makes me look smart