Identifying NIC card speed

Hi All ,
Is there any command to find the NIC card speed (whether it is half duplex of full duplex). Please help me on this.
Thank you,
Rajesh Kannan R.

You can see what speed the card has come up in /var/adm/messages
eg
Jul 4 10:45:21 florida eri: [ID 786680 kern.notice] SUNW,eri0 : 100 Mbps full duplex link up
Also check out this cool cool script. The speed and duplex setting are stored in the Kernel and can be pulled out using this script, which formats them in a nice way for you.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Solaris_NIC_speed_and_duplex_settings.html
Hope this helps!

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I really appreciate anyones help and expertise.
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The normal use of dual nic interfaces would be to run double instances of a given server on disparate IP numbers. Dual NIC's are generally employed in order to attach multiple IP addresses to a single machine.
Another potential use for dual NIC's is internet connection sharing, where your Mac Pro acts as a kind of router; again also this could be used for attaching one NIC to print services and the other NIC for LAN/WAN access.
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How to tell if nic card is working at 100mb or 10mb??

hello,
subject line says it all.
also, what would be best way to migrate to the open workgroup suite from
sbs6.5??
I'm running everything on one server. would like to add the blackberry
server to the new system. need to run citrix as well (only runs on
windows term server), this would be a seperate box.
would be using win2k3 server for citrix/term server on one box and
another box for running win2k3 with mssql 2005.
Thanks,
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>> subject line says it all.
>>
> Monitor, LAN/WAN, Look at the NIC stats. Almost all NIC drivers will
> report true speed/duplex there
>
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This is pretty slow, isn't it? I think the NIC card on this server is
due for an upgrade. I'm looking at the intel pro server nics.
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for netware 6.5
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Recently we have been experiencing connection problems with our cable modem and Mac. We've had our cable company out several times and I finally believe they have resolved any problems on their end.
Currently all of the cable modem lights are on (normally indicating we should be able to connect) and we are still not connecting. During a phone call to one of our cable techs he asked me to pull up System Preferences and click on Network. Upon doing this I then,under the "Show" drop down menu chose "Network Status". He and I were both surprized that the only thing that showed up in the dialog box was Internal Modem. There was no "Built in Ethernet" which is how our modem is connected to our Mac. He said that Built in Eternet should be there and that I need to get a new NIC (Network Interface Card) to resolve the problem so that the computer can communicate with the modem. Makes sense to me.
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Both of the G4 Macs you mentioned have built-in Ethernet on the motherboard. They would not require a PCI card to support this function unless the built-in Ethernet hardware on the motherboard were defective (this does not happen often), or you wanted to run much faster than the speed provided by the built-in Ethernet (not generally needed unless you are using a File Server at your location).
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I just got this a few days ago:
Model #: 400-224
Product #: F3D64AA#ABA
Serial #:[edited by Moderator]
Software Build #: 14AM1RRA603#SABA#DABA
Service ID #: 20140511
PCBRAND #: HP
I just upgraded to FiOS Internet Speeds Up to 150 Mbps/65 Mbps...
My speed is only near 90... they recommend getting a 10/100/100 NIC card...
My questions:
what (netword card?) do I have?
Can purchase a NIC card to put into it?
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I have a 3750 running 12.2(25r)SEB (image file is c3750-ipservices-mz.122-25.SEB2.bin).
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there is a bug that might relate to your problem:
Problem Description:
Link connectivity may be lost on some of the ports of Catalyst 2970, 3560, and 3750
10/100/1000 interfaces when connected to some older Gigabit NIC cards.
This problem happens when connected to the following interfaces at 10Mbps/100Mbps:
3,4,7,8,11,12,15,16,19,20,23,24 on the xxxx-24T-E and xxxx-24T-S
3,4,7,8,11,12,15,16,19,20 on the xxxx-24TS-E and xxxx-24TS-S
Symptoms:
The interface is up/up, but Data connectivity is lost
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1. Contact the NIC vendor to obtain a driver upgrade.
2. Connect the NIC to an interface not listed above.
3. Configure the interface for 1000Mbps instead of 10/100Mbps.
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 Kumar Allamraju <[email protected]> wrote:
 ><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
 ><html>
 >You should be able to do it via console in 6.1
 > Not sure if it was added in 6.0
 >For 6.0 you can set this via command line
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 >You need 6.0 SP2 RP1
 >--
 > Kumar
 >Nilesh Shah wrote:
 ><blockquote TYPE=CITE>I just downloaded Rolling Patch 1 for WLS6.0SP2.
 > While reading the README file it says
 > " ISSUE 42518: Provided a way to set which NIC card to use for multicast
 >traffic
 > "..
 >Can anyone tell me how to set this?. on my WebApplication server it
 >has two NIC
 > cards and I want to use the NICcard which is being used to talk to
 >internal network
 > for multicast messages.
 >One more thing,
 >Can anyone one tell how to search for bugs (ISSUES) in weblogic. I
 >am
 >looking
 > place where I enter ISSUE number and should get the detailed description
 >of bug/issue
 > etc..
 >Thanks for helping,
 >Nilesh</blockquote>
 ></html>
 >

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I booted and then installed the driver provided on the vendors CD and then rebooted. I get an error at desktop saying that the driver cannot be used because it was installed incorrectly, although I followed D-Links instructions to the T.
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i have a issue like
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set address=<IP Address>
end
verify
commit
exit
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I have installed a second network card in my power G4 and I need to configure this card with a static IP; however, there is no where to do this (or at least I can not find it). I have the on board network card configured and working. Any suggestions?
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SAP Business One takes too long to log on users
Symptom
SAP Business One client (not installed on the same machine as the
license service) might take several minutes to log you on successfully due to a delay in establishing a connection with the license server.
After logon, SAP Business One functions as expected.
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Other terms
SAP Business One, slow, login, log-in, delay, license, server, NIC, VPN, connection.
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Hi,
I have Solaris 10 OS installed on a PC. I am having trouble getting my machine to ping other machines on the same network. I have executed the following commands:
#ifconfig elxl0 plumb
#ifconfig elxl0 192.168.100.181 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
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The DMZ uses IP addresses only due to port forwarding.
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Use FAILOVERBCASTIPS for the DMZ?
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Hi
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