diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'packages/net-tools/files/mii-diag.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | packages/net-tools/files/mii-diag.8 | 160 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 160 deletions
diff --git a/packages/net-tools/files/mii-diag.8 b/packages/net-tools/files/mii-diag.8 deleted file mode 100644 index aa0dc0be15..0000000000 --- a/packages/net-tools/files/mii-diag.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,160 +0,0 @@ -.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- -.\" $Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2003/09/06 17:20:17 $ -.\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps -.\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection -.\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) -.TH MII-DIAG 8 "September 9, 2003" "Scyld Beowulf\*(Tm" -.\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. -.\" -.\" Some roff macros, for reference: -.\" .nh disable hyphenation -.\" .hy enable hyphenation -.\" .ad l left justify -.\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins -.\" .nf disable filling -.\" .fi enable filling -.\" .br insert line break -.\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines -.\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) -.SH NAME -mii-diag \- Network adapter control and monitoring -.SH SYNOPSIS -.B mii-diag -.RI [ options ] <interface> -.SH DESCRIPTION -This manual page documents briefly the -.B mii-diag -network adapter control and monitoring command. -Addition documentation is available from http://scyld.com/diag/index.html. - -.\" TeX users may be more comfortable with the \fB<whatever>\fP and -.\" \fI<whatever>\fP escape sequences to invoke bold face and italics, -.\" respectively. -.PP -This \fBmii-diag\fP command configures, controls and monitors the -transceiver management registers for network interfaces, and configures -driver operational parameters. For transceiver control \fBmii-diag\fP -uses the Media Independent Interface (MII) standard (thus the command name). -It also has additional Linux-specific controls to communicate parameters -such as message enable settings and buffer sizes to the underlying device -driver. -.PP -The MII standard defines registers that control and report network -transceiver capabilities, link settings and errors. Examples are link -speed, duplex, capabilities advertised to the link partner, status LED -indications and link error counters. - -.SH OPTIONS -The \fBmii-diag\fP command supports both single character and long -option names. Short options use a single dash (´-´) in front of the option -character. For options without parameters, multiple options may be -concatenated after a single dash. Long options are prefixed by two -dashes (´--´), and may be abbreviated with a unique prefix. -A long option may take a parameter of the form --arg=param or --arg param. - -.PP -A summary of options is as follows. - -.TP -.B \-A, --advertise <speed|setting> -.BR -.B \-F, --fixed-speed <speed|setting> - -Speed is one of: 100baseT4, 100baseTx, 100baseTx-FD, 100baseTx-HD, 10baseT, -10baseT-FD, 10baseT-HD. For more precise control an explict numeric -register setting is also allowed. - - -.TP -.B \-a, \--all-interfaces -Show the status of all interfaces. This option is not recommended with -any other option, especially ones that change settings. - -.TP -.B \-s,\--status -Return exit status 2 if there is no link beat. - -.TP -.B \-D -Increase the debugging level. This may be used to understand the -actions the command is taking. - -.TP -.B \-g, \--read-parameters -Show driver-specific parameters. - -.TP -.B \-G, \--set-parameters value[,value...] -Set driver-specific parameters. -Set a adapter-specific parameters. -Parameters are comma separated, with missing elements retaining the -existing value. - -.TP -.B \-v -Increase the verbosity level. Additional "-v" options increase the -level further. - -.TP -.B \-V -Show the program version information. - -.TP -.B \-w, \--watch -Continuously monitor the transceiver and report changes. - -.TP -.B \-? -Emit usage information. - -.SH DESCRIPTION - -.PP -Calling the command with just the interface name (which defaults to -'eth0' if missing) produces extensive output describing the transceiver -capabilities, configuration and current status. - -.PP -The '--monitor' option allows scripting link beat changes. -.PP -This option is similar to --watch, but with lower overhead and simplifed -output. It polls the interface only once a second and the output format -is a single line per link change with three fixed words - <unknown|down||negotiating|up> <STATUS> <PARTNER-CAP> -.PP -Example output: mii-diag --monitor eth0 - down 0x7809 0x0000 - negotiating 0x7829 0x45e1 - up 0x782d 0x45e1 - down 0x7809 0x0000 - -.PP -This may be used as - mii-diag --monitor eth0 | - while read linkstatus bmsr linkpar; do - case $linkstatus in - up) ifup eth0 ;; - down) ifdown eth0 ;; - esac - done - -.PP -It may be useful to shorten the DHCP client daemon timeout if it does -not receive an address by adding the following setting to -/etc/sysconfig/network: -DHCPCDARGS="-t 3" - -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR ether-wake (8), net-diag (8), mii-tool (8). -.br -Addition documentation is available from http://scyld.com/diag/index.html. - -.SH KNOWN BUGS -The --all-interfaces option is quirky. There are very few settings that -are usefully applied to all interfaces. - -.SH AUTHOR -The manual pages, diagnostic commands, and many of the underlying Linux -network drivers were written by Donald Becker for the Scyld -Beowulf(\*(Tm) cluster system. - |