[NTLUG:Discuss] Bandwidth?

[Rev. wRy]

Rick Cook wrote:

>>Well, that is part of what I am trying to find out. I dont know how or
>>where to look and see if that is the case, and I am assuming your
>>talking about the nic?
> 
> 
> Usually, your boot messages will include some sort of detection reporting 
> for your ethernet device. For instance, on my Debian/powerpc system, the 
> /var/log/dmesg file contains the following lines about eth0 (please excuse 
> my paranoia in masking the actual Ethernet MAC address ...):
> 
> $ grep eth0 /var/log/dmesg
> eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

Mine only had a line similar to the above.

In any event, this little tool may help:

http://linux-ip.net/html/tools-mii-tool.html

http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/extras/

Ry