I was wondering if anyone knows when you ping 127.0.0.1 does that actually go through the nic or does the system just ping internally. I had a problem with a nic and pinging like this came back as good ????
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I was wondering if anyone knows when you ping 127.0.0.1 does that actually go through the nic or does the system just ping internally. I had a problem with a nic and pinging like this came back as good ????
I have done that in the irc chat for antionline and it does actully ping yourself. Thats like saying if I hit myself will it hurt?
You are pinging localhost which means your IP stack is not completely pooched.
The answer to your question is that pinging 127.0.0.1 never touches the NIC. It it totally handled in software. You don't even have to have a NIC in the machine to ping 127.0.0.1.