Cool. I've seen cards that are supposed be able to do full-duplexing but are actually slower (the advertising lied). This could tune cards where they perform the best, whether it's a "faster" setting or "slower".
Cooper Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >All, > >Some of you remember the days when we could set the Ethernet device's >EEPROM flags with a DOS-based utility. Well, here's a collection of >Ethernet device utilities for Linux: > > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html#mii-diag > >I greatly improved network transfer speed on the internal subnet hosts >by using the mii-diag utility to set the devices to full-duplex. A side >benefit of this is that my NFS clients are more responsive during heavy >load as they are not working so hard on the Ethernet transfer. > >Note that mii-diag worked on both the Tulip and the RealTek without >modification. Several other models are supported. > > >-Cooper > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Eug-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Voice 541-689-9159 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
