On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:56:41PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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. I stand corrected. mii-diag does do what I need. Thanks! It looks like there's not much call for a procfs based alternative, is there? Might still be a nice starter project to get into kernel hacking, though.... Cheers, Simon -- "I've gone through over-stressed to physical exhaustion... what's next?" "Tuesday" --- Simon Burr & Kyle Hearn - : 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
