Re: Programmatically get ethernet interface speed?

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Will wrote:

> Is there a (reasonable) way to programmatically get the speed of an
> ethernet interface? So far all I've been able to do is look at
> net_device.if_port from the kernel and try to deduce the speed (10 vs
> 100Mbit) from the tranciever setting. This works fine with 3c59x, but
> not with eepro100, and I suspect it doesn't work with lots of other
> drivers as well. 

Most drivers support 'mii-diag'
   http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html

A related program is 'mii-tool'.

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Second Generation Beowulf Clusters
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993

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