How do I set the ethernet port to be 100bt half-duplex (or other speed)?
Please note: It is usually a bad idea to force the speed of an interface. If possible, leave in Auto-negotiate mode. Contact support@candelatech.com if you have questions. LANforge supports setting the ethernet port speeds through the GUI and CLI. The CLI Scripts page offers the lf_verify.pl script that has an example of setting the port speeds through the CLI. Information on how to set it through the GUI can be found in this section of the LANforge GUI Users Guide To manually change the ethernet port speeds without using LANforge, you can use the ethtool program available on most Linux distributions. ‘man ethtool’ will give you details on program usage.
Please note: It is usually a bad idea to force the speed of an interface. If possible, leave in Auto-negotiate mode. Contact support@candelatech.com if you have questions. LANforge supports setting the ethernet port speeds through the GUI and CLI. The CLI Scripts page offers the lf_verify.pl script that has an example of setting the port speeds through the CLI. Information on how to set it through the GUI can be found in this section of the LANforge GUI Users Guide.. To manually change the ethernet port speeds without using LANforge, you can use the ethtool program available on most Linux distributions. ‘man ethtool’ will give you details on program usage. Some older drives still use the mii-diag program written by Donald Becker. You can get information on many driver related topics at his site: www.scyld.com. If you want to try a pre-compiled version of the mii-diag program, save the mii-diag binary to your disk and make it executable. When you have the mii-diag program installed on y
