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[Nicarlo]

How to would i go about forcing my NIC card into 10mbps
full-duplex mode ?

i am running debian 3.1

I checked the /etc/network/interfaces but im not good at making stuff up

Can anyone help me out ?
This is what i got now

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask 255.255.255.224
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

[Steven]

add this to an rc file:

/usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full

[Nicarlo]

Originally Posted by Steven

add this to an rc file:

/usr/sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full

how would i go about making a runtime configuration file ?

[eymbo]

chkconfig --add your_rc_script on

This is just the basic command to get your script to run at certain run times. To explicitly specify a run time use the --level flag. This is what I do on my Centos 4.2 server. I'm not sure about debian.

[StevenG]

On Debian, you can add a start up script by placing it in

/etc/init.d/

Then run

# update-rc.d -f start_up_script_name defaults

Or manually create the symlinks in /etc/rc.* (running update-rc.d makes all the links for you.. gotta love debian)

# man update-rc.d

[Jeremy]

For RH based i use

ETHTOOL_OPTS="autoneg off speed 100 duplex full"

In

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX