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From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:29:08
Message-Id: 20100118172807.6da28b89@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit? by Stroller
1 === On Mon, 01/18, Stroller wrote: ===
2 > I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
3 > switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please,
4 > that the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC and
5 > negotiating as gigabit speeds?
6
7 ===
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9 ethtool eth0
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11 emerge ethtool if you don't have it.
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13 Not all chips/drivers support the ioctls necessary to report that, but
14 most recent ones do.
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17 -- Keith Dart
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