On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Stan Hoeppner
<stan@hardwarefreak.com> wrote:
RR put forth on 1/21/2011 3:24 PM:
> # 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
We just had a lengthy discussion about this not long ago. Here's the short of it:
Media Independent Interface (MII):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Independent_Interface
mii-tool is designed to work only with physical hardware connected to the MII bus.
A Linux bonded network interface is a phantom kernel software device. It exists
purely as a data set in the kernel. A kernel data set has no link speed or duplex.
Does this fully answer your question?
Yes, thank you :)
Try ethtool instead. If that's still not satisfactory, you could always go straight to the horses mouth, and direct mii-tool at each *physical* interface separately.
So I'd already tried ethtool first and it doesn't know anything about the bonded interface either. So I guess I'm fine as both my physical interfaces seem to be connected/communicating at full duplex and 1000 Mbps.
Thanks for Clarifiying that Stan :)