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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:20:51 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Organization: Candela Technologies
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Subject: LANforge traffic generator updated (can set Ethernet port speeds now)
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I updated my LANforge traffic generator to be able to set the
auto-negotiate, fixed-rate, and advertise flags in mii-diag
compliant drivers (tested on the eepro driver (works), and tulip
driver (doesn't currently work well)).
It doesn't do anything that mii-diag can't, but it does give you a
nice Java GUI and CLI that can control many machines at once.

I have also written a perl script (lf_verify.pl) that will try to set
many different combinations on a card to see if it handles it correctly.

Most of LANforge is close sourced, but I'll be happy to give free licenses
to open-source hackers if it will aid them in their network/driver
development.

If there is general interest for a graphical tool to set port speeds,
then I can probably find time to rip out that functionality and
open-source it.  Sound useful?

Please see our web page: http://www.candelatech.com or contact me
if you are interested and would like some licenses.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>          <Ben_Greear@excite.com>
President of Candela Technologies Inc      http://www.candelatech.com
ScryMUD:  http://scry.wanfear.com     http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear