Monday, April 19, 2004 10:44 PM Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell > > Tinker with mii-tool. > Specifically > > mii-too --advertise=media interface > > media can be one of: 100baseT4, 100baseTx-FD,100baseTx-HD, > 10baseT-FD, and 10baseT-HD. > > What you should see is the link light go dark for a blink > then a new physical layer connection is made. It could be > that the negotiation is not good and kicking it again might > link up .... I am finding that FD is hard for many > inexpensive cards, switches and drivers. I don't know about that. The problem is not that he can't get a link, he is and the connection is up at 100Mb/s, but mii-tool says it's only 10Mb/s. As for full duplex having poor support on cheaper hardware, I can easily believe that. You don't really need (and can't really take advantage of) full duplex in anything but a server anyway. And it would have to be a busy one at that for you to really tell the difference. Eric Diamond eDiamond Networking & Security 303-246-9555 eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx
