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 at 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
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