Thanks a lot for the fast response Bart!
Man... just a few months away from playing with these tools and I forget
everything ;-)
Just for the curious:
sh-2.05# mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
sh-2.05# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:21:D8:CA:34
inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:57608213 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:61894552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:5 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:2864521106 (2731.8 Mb) TX bytes:3091168733 (2947.9 Mb)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xe800
Again, thanks.
Sincerely,
Jason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bart-Jan Vrielink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jason Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <debian-isp@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 6:51 PM
Subject: Re: Check NIC for speed and promisc mode
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Jason Lim wrote:
>
> > How can I check the "real" connection speed of a NIC? These are
realtek
> > 8129/8139 network cards. The leds behind the NIC aren't exactly
> > informative. I was hoping there was some way to do this directly in
linux
> > through a hardware call. I checked /proc and i couldn't find anything
> > pertaining to this.
>
> mii-tool (Package: net-tools) or mii-diag (Package mii-diag).
>
> > On a related note, how can I check if the card is in "promisc" mode?
Some
> > software seems to leave it in promisc mode... so once I find out if it
IS
> > in promisc mode, how can i switch it back?
>
> ifconfig eth0 | grep PROMISC
> ifconfig eth0 -promisc
>
> --
> Tot ziens,
>
> Bart-Jan
>
> http://www.zentek-international.com/
