3. On my gigabit NIC, it had 4 led lights; 2 for 10/100 link (led1 and led2);
another 2 for 1000 link (led3 and led4)
When my debian box is off or in BIOS, on eth0 (connected to billion modem) led3
and led4 will be on static green (as expected)
But after the debian connected with pppoe, led2 and led4 are blinking green
I
also notice before the upgrade, the billion modem connected to debian
will have a green light (indicate connected using 1G) where now is on
orange (connected 100mbps)
(note: my eth1 working fine and it has led3 and led4 as expected)
How can I make sure that eth0 using the proper driver and able to run 1G
connection to my billion modem?
Or
this is a normal situation where a gigabit NIC used to do ppp auth even
my modem is built-in gigabit port? But why it was indicating with 1G
mbps previously?
ethtool is a command that will allow you to control the speed your nic
is running at.
In linux there is usually only one driver for each device, although
rarely a new driver is written from scratch and the old one is retired.
ethtool will also tell you which driver each interface is using
Dean
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