Ethernet card, cable link state ?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Jonathan Andrews wrote:

> Sorry if this is off topic, but i've googled myself into a corner.
>

It is off topic and sounds like a fedora-list question, please see:
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/PostIsOffTopic

> Whats the best way to check the cable link state for an ethernet
> connection under core 3 ? I assumed that I would find something in /proc
> - but so far nothing seems to toggle between cable connected and cable
> disconnected.  eth0 is up.
>

But the answer is either ethtool or mii-tool.

Please point all replies at fedora-list,

Thanks!

-n
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