Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 06:00:06 EST


In article <20001201233227.A9457@metastasis.f00f.org> you wrote:
> Actually; Ethernet badly needs something like this too. I would kill
> to be able to do something like:

> ifconfig eth0 speed 100 duplex full

> o across different networks cards -- I've been thinking about it of
> late as I had to battle with this earlier this week; depending on
> what network card you use, you need different magic incarnations to
> do the above.

> A standard interface is really needed; unless anyone objects I may
> look at drafting something up -- but it will require some input if it
> is not to look completely Ethernet centric.

For ethernet we have ethtool, recently changed from sparc only to
architecture independend.

        Christoph

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