Monday, April 19, 2004 9:07 PM Jay Daniels asked:
I have dual builtin Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigait Ethernet
Controller. My hub is 10 Mbit, but both the DSL eth0 and the
hub eth1 show 10 Mbit. It seems I remember the DSL link eth0
showing as 100 Mbit with RH 9.
It may have, but I doubt it. Most DSL routers/modems have 10Mb
interfaces. It doesn't make sense for them to be built anyother way. The
newer chipsets are more expensive and would add to the cirduit board
real estate.
What should the DSL side be set to? I assume 10 Mbit would
cover my slow DSL connection.
Yup. You're probably well under 1 Mb/s. Even if you were next door to
the CO, and had a friend inside who was willing to set your DSLAM
parameters to wide open, you wouldn't see much more than 7.5 Mb/s
anyway.
After running the mii-tool -v -F 100baseT-HD eth0 the link died.
Yes, see below...
Before running mii-tool I got:
eth0: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok
eth1: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok
This says that neither the DSL router nor the hub support
auto-negotiation. You won't get your PCs interfaces to do any better
without replacing the equipment it's connected to. And as I stated
above, replacing the DSL router won't do you any good in that regard
anyway.
Eric Diamond
eDiamond Networking & Security
303-246-9555
eric(a)ediamond.net