mii-tool doesn't seem to be reporting the correct port speed

[Tomoki Taniguchi]

thanx that helped alot


On 8/25/07, Lea Gris <lea.gris at noiraude.net> wrote:
> Tomoki Taniguchi a écrit :
> > i have a feisty box with eth0 which is using the e1000 driver.
> >
> > when i run
> > sudo mii-tool eth0
> > it reports back
> >
> > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
> >
> > but the SWITCH it is connected to reports that it's connected at 1000Mbps.
> >
> > so i checked the dmesg and i this is what i get
> >
> > $ dmesg |grep eth0
> > [   50.113418] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> > [   53.063759] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> > [   53.216473] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex
> > [   53.219110] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> > [   63.649570] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> >
> > so i am thinking that mii-tool is not reporting the proper speed
> > is there a way to check if the interface is actually connected at 1000Mbps?
>
> mii-tools has been obsoleted by ethtools.
>
>
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