Hello All,
I'm back with questions about more debian idiosyncracies I'm discovering as I move along this path of adopting debian...maybe it's just the issues related to the debian port on Sparc or maybe it's just a case of PEBKAC. But here goes...
So after I successfully got bonding working on the bge interfaces on the Sparc machine with debian, I ran the mii-tool and this is what i see,
# mii-tool -v bond-voipvlan
bond-voipvlan: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
product info: vendor 00:01:00, model 0 rev 4
basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex
basic status: link ok
capabilities:
advertising:
That looks pretty dodgey. Is that just a bug in the mii-tool on this port or is my bonded interface actually functioning as a 10Mbps - Half Duplex link? because the physical interfaces seem to both be communicating over a full duplex 1 GbE link as I can see in the machine and even on the switch side which reports:
#sh interfaces GigabitEthernet 0/29 status
Port Name Status Vlan Duplex Speed Type
Gi0/29 connected 4 a-full a-1000 10/100/1000BaseTX
for one of these interfaces that is being used for the bonding.
Should I ignore the statistics reported by mii-tool for the bonded interface and be happy knowing that the actual physical interfaces are still communicating at full-speed?
Cheers,
\RR