Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 3 Dec 2000 07:43:01 -0600 (CST) | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux |
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On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring > method to query the current capacity of an interface. > to report "eth0 is handling 1 Megabyte/second, but we cannot tell if > that is 90% (10BaseT) or 9% (100BaseT) utilization". We should report > capacity rather than speed because speed alone is not the controlling > factor, other things like half or full duplex affect the capacity.
Well, ethtool interface supports reporting media selection as well as [re]setting media setting. I dunno if we could report what capacity an interface is handling without adding code to hot paths...
Jeff
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