Check NIC for speed and promisc mode

Hi, Pretty much as title. 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

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

Re: Check NIC for speed and promisc mode

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 in

Re: redundancy via DNS

":yegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have several servers colocated with several ISP's > i am trying to sort out some configuration that would ensure good uptime for > customers We're helping a customer with a similar situation. They have multiple incoming Internet connections. What we pl

Re: redundancy via DNS

Fraser Campbell wrote: > ":yegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>we have several servers colocated with several ISP's >>i am trying to sort out some configuration that would ensure good uptime for >>customers >> > > We're helping a customer with a similar situation. They have multiple > in

Perl DBD driver vor Sybase/MS SQL Server?

Hi, PHP4 has recently got a php4-sybase module, so is ther a chance a perl counterpart dbd-sybase package in sid/woody? This driver would also enable access to MS SQL Servers, I guess. The answer to the question "Can I access my M$ server with Perl?" could be turned from plain "no" to a "Should w

Re: redundancy via DNS

Hi, I don't quite understand one bit of your statement... > This way if one of the connections go down, that DNS server becomes available > and those IPs stop being handed out ... effectively removing those IPs from > your DNS rotation and automatically failing over to the remaining > connection

Check NIC for speed and promisc mode

Hi, Pretty much as title. 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

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 a

Re: Check NIC for speed and promisc mode

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 ine

Re: redundancy via DNS

":yegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have several servers colocated with several ISP's > i am trying to sort out some configuration that would ensure good uptime for > customers We're helping a customer with a similar situation. They have multiple incoming Internet connections. What we pla

Re: redundancy via DNS

Fraser Campbell wrote: ":yegon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: we have several servers colocated with several ISP's i am trying to sort out some configuration that would ensure good uptime for customers We're helping a customer with a similar situation. They have multiple incoming Internet connectio

Perl DBD driver vor Sybase/MS SQL Server?

Hi, PHP4 has recently got a php4-sybase module, so is ther a chance a perl counterpart dbd-sybase package in sid/woody? This driver would also enable access to MS SQL Servers, I guess. The answer to the question "Can I access my M$ server with Perl?" could be turned from plain "no" to a "Should wo

Re: redundancy via DNS

Hi, I don't quite understand one bit of your statement... > This way if one of the connections go down, that DNS server becomes available > and those IPs stop being handed out ... effectively removing those IPs from > your DNS rotation and automatically failing over to the remaining > connections