[Linuxha-users] Re: Netgear 1Gbps network card and mii-tool

[Simon Edwards]

Hello Michael,
	Running Linuxha.net with cards that do not support the relevant hooks
for the mii-tool is not a problem... However, if you wish to have IP
failover under 0.8.3 and above (when it comes out - soon!) the cards on
the network in question are best being supported by mii-tool.

	In your situation you would get fail-over when physical link problems
occurred on the 100Mbit/sec cards, but not on the 1Gbit/sec cards.

Regards,
Simon.

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:09 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> As discussed earlier, I have purchased 2x Netgear Gigabit cards:
> 
> http://www.netgear.com/products/details/GA311.php
> 
> On boot these show up as:
> 
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
> r8169: PCI device 00:0f.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8169
> r8169: PCI device 00:0f.0: TxConfig = 0x4000000
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
> eth2: Identified chip type is 'RTL-8169'.
> eth2: RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xxxxxxxxx, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 4
> eth2: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
> eth2: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
> 
> and on the standby node:
> 
> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
> PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:09.0
> r8169: PCI device 00:09.0: unknown chip version, assuming RTL-8169
> r8169: PCI device 00:09.0: TxConfig = 0x4000000
> divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
> eth1: Identified chip type is 'RTL-8169'.
> eth1: RealTek RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet at 0xxxxxxxxx, xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 4
> eth1: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
> eth1: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
> 
> Each card has a RealTek chip on it, so the assumption the kernel makes above 
> is correct.
> 
> I've given these cards 10.x.x.x subnets, and am able to ping between the two 
> (I've used a cross-over cable to hook each of them up to one another)
> 
> However, mii-tools shows me the following:
> 
> # mii-tool
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
> eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
> SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth2' failed: Operation not supported
> 
> Is this an issue when running with linuxha.net?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Michael.
> 
> 
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