On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 13:34 -0400, Jon Shorie wrote: > Does anyone know how I can find out the speed of my network connection on a > fedora machine? > > On my ubunto boxen, I do a > > dmesg | grep eth0 > > and it usually tells me > > something like: > > [ 24.527986] eth0: no IPv6 routers present > [ 2466.508627] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Down > [ 2472.385648] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full > Duplex > > but on fedora, I get: > > eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf883e000, 00:16:e6:6c:42:a1, IRQ 17 > r8169: eth0: link up > r8169: eth0: link up > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > r8169: eth0: link down > r8169: eth0: link up > > a uname -r gives me: > 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 > > any suggestions? I want to know if I am getting a 100 or 1000 mb/s > connection. > > Thank you > > Jon Shorie > Systems Administrator > Medina County Sanitary Engineers > $ ethtool ethX Or, if your card doesn't support ethtool: $ mii-tool ethX - Gilboa
