Right -- that was step 2 -- I was hoping there was some Redhat command that could tell us (one that works on s390x distros) ...
Thanks, Barton -- we'll see what we can find out thru our own measurements.. Scott Rohling On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Barton Robinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Decent performance tools can be used to benchmark it. Create a benchmark > from one linux > server to the other and measure it. > > > > > Scott Rohling wrote: > > Any ideas on how we can verify what the speed really is? Since they are >> seeing this number - there is now doubt in the air :-) >> >> Scott Rohling >> >> p.s. ethtool eth0 return 'No data available' >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> On 9/29/2008 at 12:02 PM, in message >>>>>> >>>>> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott >>> Rohling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> On RHEL5.2 -- we're using mii-tools and seeing that the ethernet >>>> >>> >>> interface >>> >>> is set to 100mbs -- the OSA is set to gigabit - and we're wondering if >>>> something special needs to be done to set it to gigabit speeds.. Using >>>> 'ethtool=' doesn't seem to work on Linux (s390x linux).. >>>> >>> >>> I'm amazed that mii-tools returns anything at all. >>> >>> >>> This is on a VSWITCH -- everything works fine except the reported >>>> >>> >>> speed... >>> >>> Any ideas? >>>> >>> >>> Since the interface that mii-tools is reporting on is a virtual one, >>> having >>> nothing to do with any real hardware, I would say ignore it. >>> >>> >>> Mark Post >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >>> visit >>> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >>> >>> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
