[wplug] Determine network link speed

Tim Quinlan tim at techfocus.net
Thu Aug 21 15:14:43 EDT 2003


10/100 NICs should have a speed indicator light on them.  Check the
documentation for your NIC to see how to read it.  Some use light on for
100, light off for 10.  And some use a green light for 100 and orange
for 10.
 
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:32, Mike Griffin wrote:
> The command: mii-tool
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Jason Dunn wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to find a way to tell what the link speed is on a machine
> > running RH8. I know with ifconfig, you can tell it what media type to
> > use, but I want to view the speed an auto selecting card is selecting.
> > The switch that the machine is connected to is in a cabinet and is
> > unreachable.  Is there any way to tell whether it's running at 10BaseT
> > or 100BaseT?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
> >
> >
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