NAME
mii-diag - Network adapter control and monitoring
SYNOPSIS
mii-diag
[options]<interface>
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
mii-diag
network adapter control and monitoring command.
Addition documentation is available from http://scyld.com/diag/index.html.
This mii-diag command configures, controls and monitors the
transceiver management registers for network interfaces, and configures
driver operational parameters. For transceiver control mii-diag
uses the Media Independent Interface (MII) standard (thus the command name).
It also has additional Linux-specific controls to communicate parameters
such as message enable settings and buffer sizes to the underlying device
driver.
The MII standard defines registers that control and report network
transceiver capabilities, link settings and errors. Examples are link
speed, duplex, capabilities advertised to the link partner, status LED
indications and link error counters.
OPTIONS
The mii-diag command supports both single character and long
option names. Short options use a single dash (