Unix administration - Re: Diagnosing network slowness: server or network?

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Re: Diagnosing network slowness: server or network?

James Knott

2005-06-25, 7:48 am

Michael Heiming wrote:

> Yep, from my experience the only OS able to handle
> auto-negotiation perfectly is Linux. Most distro come with
> mii-tool or/and eth-tool, allowing to check/set settings on the
> system (all good NICs) on Solaris ndd can do this for you. But
> mii-tool allows in addition to see what the other side of the
> link is advertising:
>

Where'd you find mii-tool? It doesn't seem to be part of the SuSE 9.3
distro and the first several google hits don't appear to include a download
site.