Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Dec 2000 12:00:06 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux |
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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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