[wplug] Determine network link speed

Jason Dunn jrd154 at psu.edu
Thu Aug 21 15:59:50 EDT 2003


Thanks, that one I knew, but I was actually curious about checking the
link speed remotely.  I have a lab of machines in another building
across campus.

On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 15:14, Tim Quinlan wrote:
> 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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