Q. How do I determine my Ethernet connection speed under Debian Linux 4.0 server?
A. You need to use ethtool command todisplay or change ethernet card settings. It is used for querying settings of an ethernet device such as
=> Link speed
=> Autonegotiation
=> Coalescing settings
=> Change the rx/tx ring parameters
=> Setup new speed and much more
Most intelligent network devices use an autonegotiation protocol to communicate what media technologies they support, and then select the
fastest mutually supported media technology.
How do I determine ethernet connection speed?
Type the following command to get speed for eth0:
$ ethtool eth0 | less
OR
$ ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed
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Is there any similar functionality on Windows?
I want to see the Duplex and Speed on Windows as well.
yes you have to go to your Ethernet card properties which can me done through device manger and there select advance option and change the LAN link speed either to 10 or 100 Mbps full or half duplex
I’m using Ubuntu 8.10 alpha 3 32bits.
I tried “ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed ” but needed to add sudo to execute it.
Without sudo:
Cannot get device settings: Operation not permitted
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted
Cannot get link status: Operation not permitted
jp@jp-desktop810:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed
Speed: 100Mb/s
Talk about difficult to find out what my nic link speed is with linux (fedora 8) …
I would have expected “settings/network or network status” to show me.
On windows just look at the properties/status of the network card object and it shows link speed, duplex and real time packet count.
On Windows, you type in a fairly long command to get it, instead of just “ethtool “, which is shorter. You’re comparing the graphical tools available on Windows to the command line of Linux. Apples and oranges.
Tried this on ubuntu, uhm, 8 or something (was some old usb livestick i often use to revive data from dead computers and laptops).
I had to install the ethtool first, but a permission denied. This command worked though:
sudo apt-get install ethtool
Then I tried the first command in this article, which gave me no info and I didn´t know howto get out of the program. Closed the terminal and opened it up again, then ran the second command. Permission denied. But a sudo !! did the trick. In short, this would work after doing the apt-get-install:
sudo ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed
Hope this helps others out who are just as newb as me :)
@lucb1e
apt-get and ethtool are administrator tools hence the need to use sudo before the actual commands. Users are normally not able to use them as they can affect the system and possibly cause major failures in connectivty or software.
On amazon Linux on EC2, ethtool only says whether a link is detected or not.
ifconfig -a
cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0
cat /proc/net/bonding/bond1