[ale] ethtool and mii-tool disagree

[Christopher Fowler]

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?