Re: [Nolug] tinkering with /etc/rc.d/init.d/network

David John wrote:
> On Wed, March 2, 2005 11:55 pm, -ray said:
>
>>Any reason you are wanting to force it to 100Base-FD? Unless you have a
>>managed switch and can also force the other side to 100Base-FD, it's
>>normally best to leave both sides at auto-negotiation, in my experience.
>>
>>ray
>>
>
> Its plugged into a BS router that is 100FD. It would be easier to set
> eth0 on Fedora to 100FD rather than asking BS to change the router to auto
> sensing, if you know what I mean.
>

I believe you should be using ethtool instead of miitool on Fedora. If so, you
can put your launch details by settting $ETHTOOL_OPTS in /etc/sysconfig/network
/sbin/ifup looks for ETHTOOL_OPTS and will run ethtool with those options if
the variable is set.

> David
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