Re: Forcing 100Mbps Full Duplex

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 10:48, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have 2 Red Hat 8 machines, one of them containing an
> eepro100 and the other a 3c59x.
> 
> I need to set both of the cards to 100Mbps full
> duplex, and use the mii-tool utility to do this via
> the command:
> 
> mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD
> 
> However, when I reboot the setting goes back to
> Autonegotiate, which means it will autoneg at 100Mbps
> Half duplex.
> 
> How can I fix this permanently so each boot makes it
> come up 100Mbps full?
> 
> Thanks.
> Michael.

What about directly setting the options for the cards via the
/etc/modules.conf - most ethernet cards' modules can accept particular
option settings via the parameters specified there...??

That way, you never have to muck around with mii or ethtool...

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