Thanks for the tip. I got this installed and running on my ag nodes. One thing I really like about this tool is that you can suppossedly use it to set as well as check your speed/duplex settings. And in case you're wondering..I really don't care about ftp speeds. I had noticed some network issues and was just looking for a way to benchmark the network performance. I'm using ncftp which gives a nice avg after it finishes downloading a file. Here is the output from my station with the etherexpress pro 100 card. I left this running while I was doing a large file transfer. The avg again for the transfer was 2.66MB/sec. [root@watrgrid3 /tmp]# ./mii-diag -v -w mii-diag.c:v2.02 5/21/2001 Donald Becker ([email protected]) http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html Using the default interface 'eth0'. Basic mode control register 0x2100: Auto-negotiation disabled, with Speed fixed at 100 mbps, full-duplex. You have link beat, and everything is working OK. This transceiver is capable of 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT. Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete. Your link partner is generating 100baseTx link beat (no autonegotiation). End of basic transceiver informaion. MII PHY #1 transceiver registers: 2100 780d 02a8 0154 05e1 0081 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0a03 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000. Basic mode control register 0x2100: Auto-negotiation disabled! Speed fixed at 100 mbps, full-duplex. Basic mode status register 0x780d ... 780d. Link status: established. Capable of 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT. Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete. Vendor ID is 00:aa:00:--:--:--, model 21 rev. 4. No specific information is known about this transceiver type. I'm advertising 05e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT Advertising no additional info pages. IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol. Link partner capability is 0081: 100baseTx. Negotiation did not complete. Monitoring the MII transceiver status. 13:57:25.518 Baseline value of MII BMSR (basic mode status register) is 780d.

You can compile the mii diag tools yourself under RH 6.2, and it might well be rewarding. I just tried fetching from: http://www.scyld.com/diag/

which has instructions, and links to the necessary pieces: ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/mii-diag.c ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag/libmii.c

After fetching these, just say gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O mii-diag.c -DLIBMII libmii.c -o mii-diag (quoting from the last couple lines of mii-diag.c) and then

mii-diag -v -w