On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>wrote:
> RR put forth on 1/21/2011 3:24 PM: > > > # mii-tool -v bond-voipvlan > > bond-voipvlan: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok > > product info: vendor 00:01:00, model 0 rev 4 > > basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex > > basic status: link ok > > capabilities: > > advertising: > > > > That looks pretty dodgey. Is that just a bug in the mii-tool > > We just had a lengthy discussion about this not long ago. Here's the short > of it: > > Media Independent Interface (MII): > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Independent_Interface > > mii-tool is designed to work only with physical hardware connected to the > MII bus. > > A Linux bonded network interface is a phantom kernel software device. It > exists > purely as a data set in the kernel. A kernel data set has no link speed or > duplex. > > Does this fully answer your question? > > Yes, thank you :) > Try ethtool instead. If that's still not satisfactory, you could always go > straight to the horses mouth, and direct mii-tool at each *physical* > interface separately. So I'd already tried ethtool first and it doesn't know anything about the bonded interface either. So I guess I'm fine as both my physical interfaces seem to be connected/communicating at full duplex and 1000 Mbps. Thanks for Clarifiying that Stan :)
