Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 2:38 AM:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 02:15:52 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>
>> Camaleón put forth on 11/23/2010 1:34 AM:
>>
>>> Mmm... you're right, I also get the same output when running the above
>>> command. So as Stan has already pointed out, that tool can be buggy :-?
>>
>> It's not a bug. It's feature incomplete. It seems clear that the
>> author(s) never intended it to be used on virtual NICs.
>
> Then better than providing wrong information to the user is displaying
> nothing or a simple warning ("feature not -yet- implemented").
Or, maybe the authors assume people will use the tool as intended:
This utility checks or sets the status of a network interface's
Media Independent Interface (MII) unit. Most fast ether-
net adapters use an MII to autonegotiate link speed and duplex
setting.
Virtual adapters don't have an MII. MII is hardware in silicon.
Virtual adapters don't have silicon.
It should be clear to anyone reading the mii-tool man page, and
possessing some common sense, that the tool will not work properly on a
virtual adapter. If you don't understand this, talk to the authors:
David Hinds - dhi...@pcmcia.sourceforge.org
Donald Becker - bec...@scyld.com
Bernd Eckenfels - e...@debian.org
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