On 31/07/06 01:30, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 30 July 2006 23:20, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
What are *you* talking about? The only way to determine if you have connectivity is to actually try to connect to something. Failing a DHCP request attempt tells you no more about the problems of your network than failing a ping, or an attempt to connect to some server. Only the raw rookie would think he had connectivity simply because he has an IP, but forgot it was assigned statically.
The OP already admitted to being a raw wookie. Perhaps you would like to throw a few more insults his way.
Further, if you had bothered to follow the thread you would have seen he already manually assigned an ip and that was still unable to ping.
You are now recommending he run in circles.
I made no recommendations whatsoever. I only pointed out that using DHCP over a static IP has nothing to do with the solution to this problem, contrary to what you inferred in you response to Jerry Feldman. I threw no insults in any direction. I only pointed out that neither DHCP nor a static IP were of any relevance in resolving the problem, contrary to what you inferred. Finally, I have been following the thread, noting that over 500KB had been received on the HIC, while less than 20KB had been transmitted. This, in your response to Jerry, became "not a single packet", but I do not know just what packets you might mean by that. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com