Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Not answering your question, but I have to ask, what does ifconfig -a do? I man ifconfig and it does not show an -a switch. Looked it up on the Internet, still can't find a -a switch.
It seems like this is a NIC issue or I/O of the MB. Do you have another NIC you can test it with?
I think that's hilarious about the -a switch. Perhaps if you typed it on the command line you'd see. :)
For some reason, CentOS 4.4's man page doesn't have the "-a" switch.
Excerpt from man 8 ifconfig under FreeBSD 6.2: (not relevant per se to CentOS, but documents the flag)
Optionally, the -a flag may be used instead of an interface name. This flag instructs ifconfig to display information about all interfaces in the system. The -d flag limits this to interfaces that are down, and -u limits this to interfaces that are up. When no arguments are given, -a is implied.
And output from 'ifconfig --help' on the CentOS 4.4 command line:
root@cfcu alias# ifconfig --help Usage: ifconfig [-a] [-i] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]
The very top line of the --help usage guide. (with no further explanation).
Also, -a is not implied in CentOS's ifconfig, you get more complete output on a CentOS box with it.
I have to look around for a NIC. Not being able to use the GB NIC's the system came with will be mildy problematic at best. I need the I/O throughput, and I don't have any spare GB Nic's laying around, although I do have a dual port Intel I can test with for a few minutes.
Peter