[CentOS] network running at 10 or 100, how to tell -- MII v. GBIC
Bryan J. Smith
thebs413 at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 4 15:34:04 UTC 2006
Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
> mii-tool doesnt give you gigabit speeds it will work for
> 10/100 not
> 10/100/1000
Correct, because the Media Independent Interface (MII) PHY
(physical chip) specification pre-dates GbE. It was designed
for FE.
Ethtool works with the newer GigaBit Interface Converter
(GBIC) PHY specification.
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Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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