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

[Michael Mansour]

Hi Simon,

I did a bit of googling and it seems that mii-tool was specifically made for 
10/100mbps cards (correct me if I'm wrong), and that the ethtool product 
should be used for the gigabit cards??

I've read the man pages on ethtool and it looks like that's just a utility to 
set values for the eth interfaces and not really test.

What Gigabit cards you recommend? after googling it seems that the Intel cards 
are the go?

Michael.

> 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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