Odd networking problem

[Jason Shaw]

You can try "arp -a" from terminal to see if there's lower level awareness
of the router, in which case you should see the router's MAC address listed
as a neighbor, in which case, you would at least know that it's a higher
layer where the problem resides.

-jason

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Peter King <peter.king-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:36:05PM -0400, William Park wrote:
>
> > Firewall?  Try 'traceroute'.
>
> Well, traceroute works by measuring the length of time between "ping" hops,
> but I can't even ping the router -- so traceroute gives nothing, in either
> direction. The router doesn't recognize the netbook as connected under OS
> X,
> even though it registers the presence of a "live" ethernet connection at
> the
> correct speed. I guess that's all lower down in the seven layers.
>
> Tried reinstalling the drivers, too, without joy.
>
> Browsing the networking configuration plist, I *did* find that the router's
> mac address associated with the ethernet port isn't correct. That might
> make
> a difference, if I could figure out how to change it (short of blind-typing
> over the configuration file which I'm hesitant to do without having a
> better
> idea of what's going on in the internals).
>
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