Re: [PLUG] eth card identification

[Greg Lopp <lopp@pobox.com>]

Paul L. Snyder wrote:
> Even easier: Just pull the network cable out of one interface and run
> mii-tool.  It will report link ok/no link for all the cards in your
> system, by interface name.  (It's also useful for dealing with
> Ethernet autonegotiation problems.)
>
> It's part of net-tools, so it's probably already lurking around your
> sbin.
Yea, mii-tool is nice.  I discovered it two days ago while trying to 
debug an ethernet driver.  It also lets you force 100 vs 10 Mb and half 
vs full duplex.

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