Nichestack Tutorial Using Arria V GX starter board

So I hardcoded the MAC address into iniche_init.c, and when I run as -> niosII hardware, it likes the mac address as well as the IP address I have assigned to niosII_simple_socket_server.h as well as manually through my windows network connections. It goes all the way down to listening on port 30 as expected still, but still not accepting the invitation from my telnet command. Could this be a problem in the c files? I have also tried pinging the IP address that is assigned to the board, but that fails as well. I really do not see any error messages, it just seems that for some reason the board does not want to communicate with my computer.