Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <j...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 01:02:55PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Oh, sorry, I confused it with a different program. Hm, ethtool I'd put >> into the borderline category -- one argument in its favor is that you >> may need it in order to fix your networking so that you can get >> somewhere to install more packages. > Actually, having installed my share of network systems (both hosts and > switches) I've found that most issues are related to ethernet > misconfiguration (forced configuration in switch, auto in network card > or viceversa) and 'ethtool' would be really useful to debug these > issues. Yeah, I usually use mii-tool, but this thread has convinced me. I agree that ethtool should be upgraded to standard. I think there should be a bias towards putting in standard small packages that are useful for figuring out why the network isn't working or fixing it. A point of standard IMO is to be a fairly minimal system that can be used to bootstrap into whatever you want, which makes debugging tools that would help resolve problems with network package installations particularly useful. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
