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From: hedrick@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Charles Hedrick)
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Subject: Re:  No echo from the NIC
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Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 20:55:35 EDT
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That's certainly true for us.  Since the NIC is not a gateway, the
only reason we would ever ping it is if we didn't get response from
the root name server and wanted to help diagnosi