LAN type

Hi all,

Recently a friend of mine asked me,on seeing a LAN,how to find its
type?, the only answer i could give her was , on seeing the cabling
used, we can say whether it is 10 Base T, or fast ethernet etc.

can any one give any other solution/answer ?

On 2009-03-05, annalissa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> can any one give any other solution/answer ?

# mii-tool
eth0: no link
eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok

On Debian systems that's found from net-tools package, ymmv. That can
give you much more information as well, so check the manpage. Hope this
helps.

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Tapio Salonsaari wrote:
> On 2009-03-05, annalissa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> can any one give any other solution/answer ?
>
> # mii-tool
> eth0: no link
> eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>
> On Debian systems that's found from net-tools package, ymmv. That can
> give you much more information as well, so check the manpage. Hope this
> helps.
>

i searched for ymmv in synaptic package manager , but didn't find any.

On 2009-03-06, annalissa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> On Debian systems that's found from net-tools package, ymmv. That can
> i searched for ymmv in synaptic package manager , but didn't find any.

YMMV is an acronym, Your Mileage May Vary. I just wanted to say that on
Debian you need to install net-tools package but the name may vary if
you're using something other than debian.

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Maxwell Lol wrote:
> Tapio Salonsaari <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>> On 2009-03-05, annalissa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> can any one give any other solution/answer ?
>> # mii-tool
>> eth0: no link
>> eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>
> There is also ethtool. I recently downloaded the source, and compiled it.
> It provides a lot of information, and options to control the NIC card.

ethtool is good if you want a register dump (-d switch). Unfortunately
not every NIC module supports dumping the registers. On those where
ethtool can't get a register dump, I've found that mii-tool (and
mii-diag) can still get some info.

annalissa wrote:
> Tapio Salonsaari wrote:
>> On 2009-03-05, annalissa <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> can any one give any other solution/answer ?
>>
>> # mii-tool eth0: no link
>> eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>>
>> On Debian systems that's found from net-tools package, ymmv. That can
>> give you much more information as well, so check the manpage. Hope this
>> helps.
>>
>
> i searched for ymmv in synaptic package manager , but didn't find any.

hhahahahahahahaahahahahah
that cracks me up