duplex prob

[Mike Wright]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 12 September 2009, sureshbabu ct wrote:
>> I have a Fedora-5 machine.. with two LAN (RTL 8139 c) cards. machine is
>> being used for internet sharing .(proxy)
>>  In that, one LAN card is connected to local area connection and another
>> one is connected to a Broad-band internet connection,
>>
>> while using this command
>>
>> mii-tool
>>
>> eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
>> eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
>>
>> how to change this to full duplex.
>>
>>
>> I have added this line in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, after
>> that also it is not changing........plz help me...
>>
>> OOTPROTO=none
> 
> What is this OOTPROTO thing?  You are missing the B that makes it BOOTPROTO, 
> and I have no idea what none is supposed to do, static and dhcp are the 2 
> common arguments there.

Hi, Gene.

I ranted about this a couple years back.  The documentation is explicit; 
however, static is so widely misused that it is now tested for and set 
to none.  Static is not a boot protocol period punto final.

Here's the thread (you may notice a few recognizable denizens;)

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-11/msg02711.html

About half way down look for "The Official RedHat Linux Reference Guide 
Chapter 12. Network Scripts"

>> HWADDR=00:40:95:78:1E:B7
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> NETMASK=255.255.0.0
>> IPADDR=172.19.1.42
>> USERCTL=no
>> IPV6INIT=no
>> PEERDNS=yes
>> TYPE=Ethernet
>> GATEWAY=192.168.1.11
>>
>> *ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off
>> ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full*
>>
>>
>>
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