SUMMARY: Forcing full duplex on RedHat 9 permanently

William Robertson <willi_robs-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.admin.managers
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Thank you guys for your help:

Peter Thompson-Yezek 
Aaron M. Hirsch  
Joe Radinger  
Vic Engle  
venkat_saravanan
Jason Feilbach  
D. Stimits  
Brian Coyle  
Franky Van Liedekerke  
Chris Scheller  
Angel Rivera  
Brian Sherwood
Sven Heinicke    

Ok, half of you guys suggested to modify the
/etc/modules.conf with the proper options depending on
the nic card and driver, and the other half suggested
to write a startup script. Both parties are correct.
Modifying /etc/modules.conf is the proper way to force
full-duplex but the startup script is easier to
implement if you do not know much information about
the options you want to use with your nic card.


so my /etc/modules.conf looks like this for a Intel
100/pro Ethernet-card which is loaded with
100MBit/full: 

alias eth0 e100 
options e100 e100_speed_duplex=4 

Brian and Franky suggested this site for further
information: http://www.scyld.com/diag_index.html

Sven Heinicke suggested to either put this in a boot
script, or read the driver specs for the ethernet
module you are using and set that when modules are
loaded

Thanks again

My original question:

> Hi,
> 
> How do I force a full duplex on a RedHat 9 machine
> permenently. I know I can use "mii-tool -v --force
> 100baseTx-FD eth0" but this is temporary. which file
> do I need to modify to make this change permenent?
> 
> Thanks in advance


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