The Pirate King's Lair: Networking an Acorn to a PC

PC preliminaries 4: Low level testing

Ping the computer by its name (SAL_900). If this is successful then Ping it by the local alias set up in the Hosts and Lmhosts files (Pc_mine). If this is also successful then the network card is properly installed. Note how the names are resolved to the correct IP address (10.6.2.1).