simple ping; pinging 101

[Rick Stevens]

THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> On 7/6/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> ...
> 
>>It sounds like you want the OS to recognize whether you have a
>>cable plugged in and "auto-mount" like a USB drive or something.
>>You seem to have some serious misunderstandings about how
>>these things are intended to work. I know of only a few machines
>>which treat ethernet cables as "hot pluggable". I'd be very
>>surprised to find that any version of Linux would do that.
>>
>>Reconfiguring a live network is not something many OSs do. This
>>normally takes administrator intervention.
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to test both arrakis eth1 and arrakis eth0
> simultaneously.  hence the attempt to ping caladan from both arrakis
> eth0 and arrakis eth1 sequentially.

 From arrakis (Muad'Dib):

	ping -I eth0 caladan
	ping -I eth1 caladan

> 
> absolutely, networking is an unknown for me.  I'm not trying to setup
> masquerading at this point.  I'm trying to ping caladan from arrakis
> eth1 and arrakis eth0.
> 
> no, I do not expect an auto-mount.  between pinging from arrakis eth0
> and arrakis eth1 attempts I run "./network restart".  does the routing
> need to be changed at that time as well?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 


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