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• Data and Technology

  Posted on February 16th, 2007

  Written by cliff

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  autoneg, autonegoation, commands, ethtool, hardware, ifconfig, link, link speed, linux, linux commands, rhel, RHEL commands, sysadmin, systems administration

  IFCONFIG Does Not give You Link Status; ETHTOOL Does

  For some reason that is a complete mystery to me, RHEL does not give you the link status when you run # ifconfig -a. This makes it incredibly hard to debug link integrity issues! Buried amongst all of Red Hat’s proprietary commands, however, is a utility called ethtool, which does give you the status of [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on June 6th, 2006

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  combo card, ethernet, funny, funny hardware name, funny install message, funny picture, geek, happy meal, happy meal card, hardware, linux, REL3, scsi, sun, sun microsystems

  Sun Happy Meal Card???

  

  So we all know that Sun is a cool company with a great sense of humor, but they really outdid themselves when they named this combination SCSI / Ethernet card Happy Meal!
  It’s a pretty old card, and honestly I had forgotten that I had installed it in my test system until I setup REL 3 [...]

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