On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Jason Lim wrote: > How can I check the "real" connection speed of a NIC? These are realtek > 8129/8139 network cards. The leds behind the NIC aren't exactly > informative. I was hoping there was some way to do this directly in linux > through a hardware call. I checked /proc and i couldn't find anything > pertaining to this.
mii-tool (Package: net-tools) or mii-diag (Package mii-diag). > On a related note, how can I check if the card is in "promisc" mode? Some > software seems to leave it in promisc mode... so once I find out if it IS > in promisc mode, how can i switch it back? ifconfig eth0 | grep PROMISC ifconfig eth0 -promisc -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan