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• Data and Technology

  Posted on March 2nd, 2009

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  dladm, duplex, ethernet, link, link speed, ndd

  Check Speed / Duplex on Solaris 10

  

  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 [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on February 16th, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  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 [...]

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