[ale] ethtool and mii-tool disagree

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat Dec 9 19:39:19 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 18:40 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> Not the point.  I'm not asking which is right but rather why two tools
> on the same server interrogating the same NIC wouldn't both give the
> same answer.

Makes sense.

I would like to know how they come up with their answer.  Do they use
ioctl() to get the values?

What does strace say?






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