Re: networking errors, what do they mean?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 11 May 2012 17:08:26 +0100, Shaun wrote:

> This could be it..
> 
> root@foxy:~# mii-tool eth0
> eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok 

Have you turned auto-negotiation off? :-?

What's the output of "ethtool eth0"?

> root@foxy:~# mii-tool bond0
> bond0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
> 
> Looks like the bond0 is on 10Mbit and the slaves on 100Mbit.
> 
> Oops!

mii-tool is not reliable (to check the status of the bonded interface you 
can "cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
"), but I'm afraid in this case you have to work over the "real" device 
not the bonded one.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón