On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Preetish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> > This depends on how much support for the MII interface is present in the
> NIC
> > driver in use. I have come across drivers that do not implement MII
> > completely and this mii-tool is unable to show you the correct link
> status,
> > regardless of the interface status.
> >
> > Thus mii-tool's output does not always reflect reality as far as the link
> > status is concerned.
>
> So i guess the summary will be that none of the tools are perfect :(
>

hey guys - from my exp - mii-tool is not capable of reporting correctly for
NICs linking at  1000mbps FD - ethtool can do that -- so yeah if all NICs
are ifconfig up'ed - ethtool is probably a better tool than mii-tool

HTH
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