Re: Does Ping(ICMP) use both TX and RX?

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evik wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to post your ...comment(I guess)

But I disagree with the reason for lack of response...After solving the
problem myself, I feel that the problem description I stated in my
first posting should of prompted any experienced XP user to the answer
straight off. It seems pretty straight forward to me, once I was able
to not worry about the issue being a hardware problem.

And what's all that about "...a little knowledge can be dangerous"
so what if it has taken me a 5 second search on google, if you don't
question and try things out yourself, you will never really learn.

if you had just said you can't ping then it'd have been fine.

Once you added all that stuff about DHCP , people couldn't see the
relevance, it started to look more complicated than it actually was.
People didn't understand it anymore.

You were talking about technologies and people probably thought you
know more than them plus they didn't udnerstand why you were saying
what you were syaing and they couldn't help you.

The whole DHCP thing was irrelevant, because that's just how the comp
gets the IP. I hadn't heard of "static assignment" , it's to do with
DHCP and had nothing to do with your problem.

To answer your post, somebody would need enough knowledge to see
through all the junk you wrote.

Then going into crossover cables and TX and RX. What's the point if
you don't know what it's all about. You had no idea how to narrow down
the problem. Let by adding all that stuff, you confused people into not
seeing the problem, and perhaps that
a) you knew what you were doing and they can't tell you anything you
don't already know.
b) they couldn't unravel the mess you created, didn't have the
knowledge. The stuff you were talking about was not windows xp at all.
You were talking about the wiring of cat5[e] UTP cables and tcp/ip
protocols and DHCP servers. Networking is a big subject. Your question
contained too many distractions on too many different areas.

You gave ithe impression that if somebody asked
"did you turn the firewalls off" or "are you running any software with
a firewall"
that you'd say
"of course , I did, but the TX wire is transmitting ICMP at 10Mbps so
it can't be...."


So, without good knowledge of all that stuff, it looks difficult to
reason with you.

It wasn't clear that all of that was absolutely irrelevant. What kind
of person would talk about all that when they haven't turned their
firewall off.

A typical experienced XP users's eyes would have glazed over.
Networking is a huge subject

.

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