In the past, I always had to use the ndd – get command to figure out what my link speed and duplex settings were. In Solaris 10, Sun now gives us the handy dladm command, which makes it a whole lot easier.
# dladm show-dev
e1000g2 link: up [...]
Most Mac users simply access network printers using LPR, but occasionally, you will need to interact with networks that are unfriendly to this method and find yourself having to use SMB printing. It’s a little inconvenient, but overall pretty easy to configure. I found some great instructions here. The method varies depending on which version [...]
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 [...]
