speed of network connection
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 25 13:27:07 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:09 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:58 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 19:43 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:34 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know how I can find out the speed of my network connection on a
> > > > fedora machine?
> > > >
> > > > On my ubunto boxen, I do a
> > > >
> > > > dmesg | grep eth0
> > > >
> > > > and it usually tells me
> > > >
> > > > something like:
> > > >
> > > > [ 24.527986] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > > > [ 2466.508627] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Down
> > > > [ 2472.385648] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full
> > > > Duplex
> > > >
> > > > but on fedora, I get:
> > > >
> > > > eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf883e000, 00:16:e6:6c:42:a1, IRQ 17
> > > > r8169: eth0: link up
> > > > r8169: eth0: link up
> > > > eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> > > > r8169: eth0: link down
> > > > r8169: eth0: link up
> > > >
> > > > a uname -r gives me:
> > > > 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6
> > > >
> > > > any suggestions? I want to know if I am getting a 100 or 1000 mb/s
> > > > connection.
> >
> >
> > > > Thank you
> > > >
> > > > Jon Shorie
> > > > Systems Administrator
> > > > Medina County Sanitary Engineers
> > > >
> > >
> > > $ ethtool ethX
> > ethtool does not do this for me.
> > I get:
> > ethtool eth1
> > Settings for eth1:
> > Link detected: yes
>
> That's hard to believe for a wired card.
>
> Settings for eth0:
> Supported ports: [ TP ]
> Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> 1000baseT/Full
> Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
> Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
> 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
> Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
> ------> Speed: 100Mb/s
> Duplex: Full
> Port: Twisted Pair
> PHYAD: 0
> Transceiver: internal
> Auto-negotiation: on
> Supports Wake-on: pumbg
> Wake-on: g
> Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
> Link detected: yes
>
> Is this a wireless card? If so, you need to use iwconfig and look
> for the "Bit Rate" value:
>
> [root at golem3 ~]# iwconfig wlan0
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"mynetwork"
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point:
> xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> -------> Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
> Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
> Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx
> Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=-39 dBm Noise level=-95
> dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Exactly where in your posting did you say that ethtool only works on
wired cards?
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