nic question

[jweekley1]

I have been trying to reconfigure my nic for 100m full duplex. when i used ethtool and mii-tool to set the new nic settings, the query gave the original settings. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this or work around.
Here is the terminal output:
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/mii-tool -v
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
product info: vendor 00:00:3f, model 63 rev 15
basic mode: 10 Mbit, half duplex
basic status: autonegotiation complete, remote fault, link ok
capabilities: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
advertising:
link partner: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0... done.
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/mii-tool
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
[root@Box1 /]#

[rcgreen]

try /sbin/mii-tool --force=100baseTx-FD

Beware, if you have to force it, there is generally a reason
why. I had a card that was capable of 10 Mbit full duplex,
but it was running at half duplex. When I forced it, I got less
throughput. The reason. although it could do full duplex, it couldn't
autonegotiate. My linksys switch wanted to negotiate, and when
the card in the PC wouldn't, the switch defaulted to half duplex.

So the settings the system is using may be because of what's
on the other end of the link. Check the throughput after you force
the card to 100 Mbit.

[jweekley1]

Thanks for answering I tried your suggestion and seemed to not work.
So I copied the terminal commands to make sure I did it correctly.
How can I check the throughput?
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/ifdown eth0
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth0
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/mii-tool
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
[root@Box1 /]# /sbin/ifup eth0

Determining IP information for eth0... done.
[root@Box1 /]#

[rcgreen]

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

You have to have flashplayer for that, or google for internet speed tests
I'm not sure what you use to test between PCs locally. You could measure the
time it takes to transfer a file of known size. A bad mismatch in configuration
would probably show up on the internet speed test.