speed of network connection
Gilboa Davara
gilboad at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 17:43:09 UTC 2007
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
Or, if your card doesn't support ethtool:
$ mii-tool ethX
- Gilboa
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