Re: osx: report network connection speed?

On 21. Apr 2005, at 9:12 Uhr, Michael Sinatra wrote:
> You may be able to open a terminal window and run ifconfig -a. If
> it's reasonably true to FreeBSD's ifconfig command, it should show you
> the link state. You'll want to look at en0 or something similar (NOT
> lo0). Somewhere in the stanza there might be a description of the
> media setting (should be autoselect) and in parentheses next to the
> 'autoselect' should be a description of the link status (e.g.
> (100baseTX <full-duplex>)).
>
> See if that works and/or provides the necessary information.
>
> michael

hello michael , all ,

after i typed in ifconfig -a i get the following result,

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marxg4:~ marxg4$ ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=1<UP> mtu 1280
         inet6 2002:d5c4:c83e:1::1 prefixlen 16
         inet6 2002:0:0:1::1 prefixlen 16
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fe8f:aaac prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         ether 00:30:65:8f:aa:ac
         media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
         supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback>
100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
<full-duplex,hw-loopback>
fw0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
         lladdr 00:30:65:ff:fe:8f:aa:ac
         media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
         supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1492
         inet 213.196.200.62 --> 213.196.239.105 netmask 0xffffff00
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after i typed in sudo ip6config start-v6 ppp0;

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marxg4:~ marxg4$ sudo ip6config start-v6 ppp0; sudo ip6config start-stf
ppp0
Password:
Password:
Starting 6to4 on ppp0.
route: writing to routing socket: File exists
add net default: gateway 2002:c058:6301::: File exists

whats does file exist mean?

regards

>

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