On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 01:08:04PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Martín Ferrari <tin...@debian.org> writes: > > > Problematic tools: > > * mii-tool: it could be dropped and replaced by a pointer to ethtool as > > it's not meant to be used automatically by scripts. On the other hand, > > it's distributed as a stand-alone tool [0] and we could do the same. > > A couple of notes: > > mii-tool and ethtool use different driver interfaces which I'm pretty > sure aren't completely overlapping for all drivers in the kernel > > mii-tool may not be meant for scripts, but I for one have used it in > the past to force speed/duplex like this: > > iface eth1 inet static > address 10.122.226.9 > netmask 255.255.255.192 > up /sbin/mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 > > I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one...
You can do this with ethtool now, and more cleanly: link-speed 100 link-duplex full > I fail to see the value of removing mii-tool. I'd rather see just the > non-working features removed in favour of an ethtool recommendation. It doesn't recognise 1G and 10G links, so its speed reporting is broken. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org