Re: Interface status

2003-02-12 Thread Bill Anderson
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 13:26, Doug Koobs wrote: > Wow, that's a neat tool! How would you use it to permanently set an > interface to full duplex/100M? I am assuming it would have to be added > somewhere in a boot-up script? Thanks! For setting things like that: man ethtool or man mii-tool Man i

RE: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
ifferent machine (e.g. etheral) - -Original Message- From: Raymundo M. Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interface status on my computer it does not work, i disconnected the wire from the ethernet port and the ifconfi

Re: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Doug Koobs
Wow, that's a neat tool! How would you use it to permanently set an interface to full duplex/100M? I am assuming it would have to be added somewhere in a boot-up script? Thanks! > try mii-tool -v ethx: > > [rvega@hella rvega]$ mii-tool -v eth0 > eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok >product i

Re: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raymundo M. Vega wrote: | on my computer it does not work, i disconnected the wire from | the ethernet port and the ifconfig is the same, i think it | tells if the interface is up in the kernel, not if the inteface | has carrier from switch/hub. This i

RE: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Periyasamy, Raj
Have you tried mii-tool ? Regards, -Original Message- From: Raymundo M. Vega [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Interface status on my computer it does not work, i disconnected the wire from the ethernet port and the

Re: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
try mii-tool -v ethx: [rvega@hella rvega]$ mii-tool -v eth0 eth0: autonegotiation failed, link ok product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD

Re: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Raymundo M. Vega
on my computer it does not work, i disconnected the wire from the ethernet port and the ifconfig is the same, i think it tells if the interface is up in the kernel, not if the inteface has carrier from switch/hub. This is from ifconfig man page: up This flag causes the interface to be a

RE: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ifconfig -a ? Look for status & link lights on the eth card & on the hub (if they have them) - -Original Message- From: Jorge Gossain Filho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 11:59 AM To: RedHat Subject: Interface st

Re: Interface status

2003-02-10 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Gossain Filho wrote: | Hi all | | How can I know if the interface "ethx" is up or down when my hub or switch is | down ?? | | only pinging ?? or there is one way to discover that protocol is down | | | Watch the UP word returned by ifconfig HT