Hi saifi You are right. Ethtool is the more use ful than mii-tool. you can say Ethtool is the super set of mii-tool. As far as the difference is concerned am not that much aware of that. till now i used them just to change the speed and autoneg. but one thing i know is mii-tool has knowledge till 100M speed but ethtool works for GB interfaces also.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Saifi Khan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Indraveni Karangula wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > mii-tool => only gives information whether the link is up or not, thus > > used to see whether our drivers are properly installed and is our network > > card detected properly. > > > > ifconfig -> gives information about the ip set to the system, mak > address, > > gateway etc. also it can used to set the ip address temporarily to the > > system like, *ifconfig eth0 <ip address>* > > > > regards > > indraveni > > > > > > Really ? In that case, what is the difference between mii-tool > and ethtool ? > > Ethtool is a very comprehensive tool to display or update ethernet > /NIC card properties. > > My search for mii-tool differentiator continues! > > thanks > Saifi. > > -- Warm regards Prabin Kishore [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
