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* [gentoo-user]  Re: How to determine if a NIC is playing gigabit?
  @ 2010-01-18 12:22 99% ` Nikos Chantziaras
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From: Nikos Chantziaras @ 2010-01-18 12:22 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 01/18/2010 01:50 PM, Stroller wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my
> desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a
> file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped.
>
> I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
> switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that
> the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC and negotiating
> as gigabit speeds?

Doing a

   dmesg | grep "Link is up"

should show something like:

   eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx




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