Unless you need the "teamed" NICs for some other reason besides your
backups, it doesn't seem like you should even bother with it. Because
even at 4MB/second, that is still only 32 Mbit/sec, which a 1Gbps
connection can clearly handle just fine.

- Stu

On 1/23/10 1:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> leen AT consolejunky DOT net wrote:
>> On 01/23/2010 07:29 PM, klemens wrote:
>>> Am Samstag, den 23.01.2010, 11:54 -0600 schrieb Les Mikesell:
>>>
>>> or something like that ?
>>>
>>> linuxpc: # mii-tool eth0
>>> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>
>> Add a -v for more information:
>>
>> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
>>    product info: vendor 00:50:ef, model 14 rev 0
>>    basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
>>    basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
>>    capabilities: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 
>> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
>>    advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD 
>> flow-control
>>    link partner: 1000baseT-HD 1000baseT-FD 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 
>> 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> 
> Mii-tool doesn't really understand gig NICs - use ethtool instead.  But the 
> real 
> evidence of problems is in errors in the ifconfig display or the counters on 
> the 
> switch ports.
> 


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