[Ilugc] query regarding ethtool
- From: shuveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Shuveb Hussain)
- Date: Thu Jun 12 17:47:49 2008
Hi,
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Bharathi Subramanian <
sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
mii-tool will return correct link status, even if the eth0 is down.
But AFAIK it is not the case with ethtool.
This depends on how much support for the MII interface is present in the NIC
driver in use. I have come across drivers that do not implement MII
completely and this mii-tool is unable to show you the correct link status,
regardless of the interface status.
Thus mii-tool's output does not always reflect reality as far as the link
status is concerned.
Regards,
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