On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Preetish wrote:

> > mii-tool is using the MII interface available in the HW. It is
> > indenpent of the interface status. But ethtool might be using status
> > avail in the driver itself (Not sure), which depends on the interface
> > status.
> 
> But is it not returning the wrong value ?

mii-tool will return correct link status, even if the eth0 is down. 
But AFAIK it is not the case with ethtool.

Bye :)
-- 
Bharathi S


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