How do you check the network speed of a Redhat machine.

[Stephen Carville]

On Wed February 9 2005 8:33 am, evdhn at advalvas.be wrote:
> That's bizar. Red Hat AS 2.1
>
> This is from dmesg:
> # dmesg|grep eth0
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
>
> And this is from mii-tool:
> # mii-tool eth0
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

mii-tool only works up to 100Base-T.  Try ethtool instead.

> Red Hat AS 2.1
>
> Any idea?
>
> emma
>
> Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:
> > El Lunes 07 Febrero 2005 12:40, Andrew.Bridgeman at corusgroup.com escribió:
> >>I need to check to see if my Redhat machines are running on 100 Half/Full
> >>or 1000 Half/Full, can someone tell me how to check this from the command
> >>line. I have tried ifconfig but it does not tell you the speed. Any help
> >> is much appreciated.
> >>
> >>Regards
> >>
> >>(Embedded image moved to file: pic23199.jpg)
> >
> > You can use the mii-tool which is in the net-tools package.
> > You must use mii-tool eth0 (for example) as root.
> > For more information look at it's manual.
> >
> > Cheers
>
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