Display actual speed of ethernet connection

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Dave Feustel wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:39:21PM +0200, fedora wrote:
>> Hi Dave
>>
>> /sbin/mii-tool
>> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> 
> Thanks for the reference.
> Man mii-tool says this utility does not cover 1G nics and is obsolete.
> It recommends ethtool instead. '/sbin/ethtool eth0' says that the ic is
> running at 100mb/s although it has 1G/s capability. So I am curious why
> the nic does not initialize to 1G or light up the port led on the 1G
> switch.
> 
In the future, could you please trim your posts? It isn't really
necessary to quote the entire message.

TIA
Mikkel
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