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How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

 
Techsystemquery
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How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

in linux if the default tool like ethtool and mii-tool not working

Is there any other way we can find ethernet information
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Ivan Ferreira
Honored Contributor

Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

What do you get in the output of ethtool?

Somethimes, dmesg and /var/log/messages provides information about the network interface.
Por que hacerlo dificil si es posible hacerlo facil? - Why do it the hard way, when you can do it the easy way?
Techsystemquery
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Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

There is nothing in dmesg on speed.

Matti_Kurkela
Honored Contributor

Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

The /sys filesystem contains a lot of information on various things, network interfaces included.

For example, eth0:

$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/duplex
full
$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/speed
1000

Note: this will work only on systems with a 2.6.* series kernel: older systems won't have the /sys filesystem.

MK
MK
Gerardo Arceri
Trusted Contributor

Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

You can also check the switch information for the ports used by the server.
Techsystemquery
Advisor

Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

#:/sys/class/net/eth0# ls
address addr_len broadcast device driver features flags ifindex iflink mtu statistics tx_queue_len type


I dont see any file which indicates speed or duplex

# uname -r
2.6.9-89.ELsmp
Steven E. Protter
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Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

Shalom,

If the above tools are not providing any information, I can surmise the following:
1) The hardware has failed.
2) The hardware is not fully supported by the OS.

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Techsystemquery
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Re: How to know Lan card speed , duplex etc information if default tools fails

Thankss all