SV: Forcing Full-Duplex on e100 FC2?
Andre ten Bohmer
andre.tenbohmer at popper.iend.wau.nl
Fri Aug 13 08:21:55 UTC 2004
Jari.Marikainen at vlt.se wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but mii-tool doesn't support (work
> properly?) on gigabit interfaces. I use ethtool with great success
> and use it on all servers.
>
> In "/etc/rc.local" I put "/usr/local/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100
> duplex full autoneg off" Which works just fine. Is there a better
> way?
Mii-tool is indeed not suitable for Gigabit NIC's, so you should use
modules options or ethtool instead. Most of the time I use ethtool but
sometimes mii-tool recognizes 10/100 NIC's chip sets which ethtool doesn't.
Cheers,
Andre
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Thomas Cameron
> [mailto:thomas.cameron at camerontech.com] Skickat: den 13 augusti 2004
> 06:38 Till: For users of Fedora Core releases Ämne: Re: Forcing
> Full-Duplex on e100 FC2?
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre ten Bohmer"
> <andre.tenbohmer at popper.iend.wau.nl> To: "For users of Fedora Core
> releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004
> 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Forcing Full-Duplex on e100 FC2?
>
>
>
>> Part of the net-tools rpm is /sbin/mii-tool (mii-tool --help). You
>> could use "#] mii-tool -F 100basetx-FD eth0" instead.
>>
>
>
> Isn't mii-tools going away in favor of ethtool?
>
> Thomas
>
>
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