[Fwd: Re: [vortex] IBM-Thinkpad with Mini-PCI Card 3c556B Kernel2.2.16- 2.4.1]

[Juri Haberland]

Uwe Tangen wrote:
> 
[snip]
> 
> Still, what is not understood by me, is, why did ping {ip of the
> gateway}
> also fail? ping should not do a name-server lookup? It might be

RedHat's ping does indeed a ns lookup. Try ping -n.
>From the man page:

  -n      Numeric output only.  No attempt will be made to lookup
symbolic
          names for host addresses.


Cheers,
Juri

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