[Cialug] Meaning of ethernet connectivity light

[Dave Weis]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Andrew Vick wrote:
> Does anyone know how much needs to be working with the card/cable/modem in 
> order to get the ethernet connection light to go on, or how much can be wrong 
> before it goes off?  I'm curious about the general case as much as anything 
> specific to my setup.  How much functionality does that light indicate?

It's a link light like a switch would have. Can you pull dhcp from the 
modem and get to 192.168.0.1?

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