,--[ On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar wrote: | I did have an IP address assigned to my ethernet interface( using the | ifconfig command) but I'm unable to ping anybody in my LAN.
In the 'ifconfig -a' output you posted earlier, the 'em0' (your desired interface) interface neither has any IP address assigned to it, nor its UP . So, if you've assigned an IP address to 'em0', then also make sure its UP, by doing 'ifconfig em0 up' . HTH -- Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/ ·-- ·- ···· ·--- ·- ···- ·- ·--·-· --· -- ·- ·· ·-·· ·-·-·- -·-· --- --
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