Alan Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Are there any utilities out there that will tell you what a workstations actual network connection is? I know you can turn on the icon and see if it is 10mb or 100mb, but I also want to know if it is half or full duplex. Currently we have most of our equipment using auto both on our switches and end nodes, but I keep seeing that it can be mis-reported and that everything should be hard set. A little more maintenance involved, but better performance in the long run.
There was an article on this in Network World and it said you could use utilities like mrtg to verify it, but how would mrtg tell me if a connection was half or full duplex? Also I don't really want to map every workstation port on all my switches. I would rather have something I could put on the workstation or run remotely. Thanks ==================================================================== You will want to look at the switch mib for an oid that shows ethernet port collisions, late-collisions, CRC errors and possibly some other errors. If a end-node is set properly full-duplex to a full-duplex switch port, there should be no, or very, very small amount of errors. If duplex is set incorrectly, you'll see many collision errors on that port. (of course, if an end-node should be set for half-duplex, you will see collisions on that port.) here's a note from the MRTG mail list. http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg/msg01814.html you can download the Cisco MIBS from their web site. HTH, Don __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/mrtg FAQ http://faq.mrtg.org Homepage http://www.mrtg.org WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
