On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:56:25PM +0000, Simon Stewart wrote: > * Link status (connected? disconnected?) > > * Physical connector type (BNC, RJ45?) > > * Connection speed (10/100/1000Mbps? Was this determined by > autosensing?) > > * Full or half duplex? > > In addition, it would be handy to be able to force some of these > settings (such as connection speed) should I need to. There are tools > such as mii-diag out there, but these appear to be specific to each > net device driver, and are therefore wholly unsuitable for automated > testing (such as by a generic script run from a cron-job) mii-tool can do all that for most drivers (but not all because they need to support some special ioctls) It should be included in newer distributions. -Andi - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
