Monthly Archives: July 2009

Check speed of connected link in Linux

By jonmoore | Published: July 24, 2009
If you’ve ever wanted to check on the status of your Ethernet links, you’ve probably used the ip commands (or ifconfig) to view some basic information.  However, you might have noticed these commands do not tell you what the current link speed is, or other possibly important details.  That’s where ethtool comes in. [jonmoore@megaton ~]$ sudo [...]
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Cancel a traceroute on Cisco devices

By jonmoore | Published: July 23, 2009
Many times I’ve started a traceroute to either a mistyped IP address, the wrong IP or something else that I would really rather not wait for 30 hops to time out before moving on. When doing the traceroute the device tells yous to “Type escape sequence to abort,” but doesn’t share what exactly this [...]
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