May 25
NVidia Forcedeth Ethernet Full-Duplex
linux, red hat, system administration, troubleshooting Add commentsJust an FYI, the NVidia Gigabit Forcedeth Ethernet driver in Linux uses the ethtool command to get and set the duplex rate and not the mii-tool like many other web pages erroneously state.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Good to know! Quick system administration question: when would you not want a NIC operating at full speed?
May 25th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
I can’t think of any reason not to, but you do want to make sure that the duplex and speed matches whatever you are connected to. The reason I had to set it manually today was that the auto-negotiation failed, leaving the card set to half duplex and the other side full-duplex.