Hey,
I'm a software engineer who is new to Arduino. I bought the Ethernet shield and am trying to play around with the examples. So, I loaded the one example that tries to connect to Google (I think it's the web client example). So, I noticed that it does not connect when it tries to connect to the IP address.
Wierd part is that if I go to my PC and ping the IP address, it pings succcessfully. I have verified that the Ethernet shield has an IP address and I can ping it from my PC.
Any ideas what may be going on? Maybe a fire wall issue? I don't remember ever doing anything special in my fire wall for my PC.