[ILUG] speed/duplex settings

[Tor Bendiksen]

Can't /sbin/ifconfig do this? No access to any Linux boxes at the moment,
but OpenBSD's ifconfig reports both speed and duplex setings.

Tor
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Isn't there also a tool in /usr/sbin called ethtool..... i use it on debian
not sure if its on redhat or not...

-Roy

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen_Reilly at dell.com [mailto:Stephen_Reilly at dell.com]
Sent: 10 May 2001 10:50
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: RE: [ILUG] speed/duplex settings



     Thanks for the response Paul. However, does anybody know a method
short of installing new things on the box of finding out the speed and
duplex settings of a Network Card (RH5.2)?

steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Kelly [mailto:longword at esatclear.ie]
Sent: 09 May 2001 19:22
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] speed/duplex settings


Stephen_Reilly at dell.com wrote:

> Can anybody tell me how to find out the speed and duplex settings of
> a network card in a Redhat 5.2 box ? They can both be set in certain
network
> card module options or jumpered for others. I looked through ifconfig,
dmesg
> output and the proc dir but couldn't find any reference there.


I'm not sure there is a standard way with RedHat 5.2. The very latest
version of net-tools, 1.59 last time I looked, contains a new program
called mii-tool. It can tell you exactly what your 10/100 card is doing,
force it to a particular mode of operation, or force a renegotiation.

I don't know if it works with 2.0 kernels but there's no harm in
grabbing a .src.rpm and having a go. Good luck to you finding an RPM
that isn't built with RPMv4 though. You may have to settle for raw source.

Paul.



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