On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:42:28 -0400 fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have installed a 1000Mbps NIC in my system. This is the system some of > you read about me where I was trying to swap the names of eth0 and eth1 > so maybe that has something to do with my problem. > > The light on the NIC shows 1000Mbps link, as does the switch it is > connected to. Kernel messages show the link as autonegotiated, and > 1000Mbps. > > The only odd one out is mii-tool which claims "eth0: negotiated > 100baseTx-FD, link ok" > > I also tried using ethtool to set it at 1000Mbps anyway via ethtool -s > eth0 speed 1000 , and the kernel again spits out messages about a > 1000Mbps link being up just fine. mii-tool still says the same as above, > however. > > The problem is that I get speeds just as if it were a 100Mbps link, > starting at about 9MB/s then dropping to about 8. > > As noted above I had two NIC's. One was an onboard 100Mbps, and the > second an add on 64-bit 1000Mbps. I had to do some tweaking with nameif > to get the 1000Mbps as eth0, and the 100Mbps as eth1. The reasons why I > wanted this really don't matter. > > Making things more confusing, last night when I first applied the nameif > changes, I DID see 1000Mbps speed transfers. > > I saw exactly this behavior in the past, what was happening was the > traffic was going right back out the 100Mbps and thus we had 100Mbps > speeds. However this time I've disabled the 100Mbps, even unplugged it. > > There are no unusual routing entries. I am not using iptables. > > I'm stumped here, any ideas? > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > mii-tool does not report anything higher than 100Mbps. That's your problem. Wrong tool for the job. -- [email protected] mailing list
