Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote:
> If you go down this path, please add a standard performance monitoring
> method to query the current capacity of an interface.
> to report "eth0 is handling 1 Megabyte/second, but we cannot tell if
> that is 90% (10BaseT) or 9% (100BaseT) utilization".  We should report
> capacity rather than speed because speed alone is not the controlling
> factor, other things like half or full duplex affect the capacity.

Well, ethtool interface supports reporting media selection as well as
[re]setting media setting.  I dunno if we could report what capacity
an interface is handling without adding code to hot paths...

        Jeff