26 Jun
2002
26 Jun
'02
14:56
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Mark Evans wrote:
PING 192.168.3.200 (192.168.3.200) from 192.168.3.200 : 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.3.200: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.180 ms Proves that eth0 interface is working, but proves nothing about routing to 192.168.0.0/255.255.252.0 network. Not quite it shows that there is a driver loaded which is happy with the hardware. This will work even if nothing is plugged in, since the kernel sends this kind of thing through the loopback interface anyway.
Depends how pedantic you want to be about the definition of the word "interface". :-) Michael