PS- In case you forgot, it's all yer' damn fault I know this crap. When it reaches your NICard, it's encoded for the media type (copper, wireless, etc) and shoved out the hole, screaming all the way like a 1st time parachutist who has just realized they are petrified of heights, planes and open spaces. Traffic coming from inside your machine which needs to get off your machine, is actually routed to your own IP address ~ so your own IP address is actually a "first-hop" for traffic intended to go to another machine. PING your own link-local address to see if the NICard is working correctly.įun fact: your link-local address is actually your machine's own default gateway. This is the address assigned to the NICard. PING 127.0.0.1 when you want to see if the TCP/IP stack is installed correctly.ġ0.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x, .x are technically called the "link-local" address. Pretend for a second that you rip out the NICard from your PC, and use it as a shim under
When TCP/IP is installed (correctly), you always have this address available, even when the machine has no Here are some tidbits about IP addresses ~ specifically the differences between 127.0.0.1* and the typical local IP address (i.e.: .x, 10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x)ġ27.0.0.1 is the address for the locally installed TCP/IP stack. Holy crap, I can actually contribute something (positive) here. New Friend (or an Old Friend who Built a New Account) View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts spam spam bacon spam