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Nov
30

Full duplex or Half duplex?

Author andy18    Category Linux-related     Tags

In Linux environment, you may check if your NIC is running in full/half duplex by executing the following command:

root@localhost [~]# ethtool eth0

Output of the result as:

Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0×00000007 (7)
Link detected: yes

root@localhost [~]# dmesg | grep -i duplex

Output of the result as:

e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex

Nov
4

WHM Account Transfer Error

Author andy18    Category Cpanel     Tags

If you are getting the following error when you try to perform any account transfer from the WHM, make sure that the port are open on your server. Check the firewall configuration on your server.

Connecting to Remote Server Failed: Unable to connect to 123.111.222.333:1111: Bad file descriptor

Nov
2

Clean Install on IIS 7.0 in Windows 2008 RC0

Author andy18    Category Windows-related     Tags

I was poking around the Windows 2008 RC0 lately with IIS 7.0. While I was trying to install the FTP 7.0 into the server, the service fail to be installed. iisreset has also fail from the command line with the message:

The IIS Admin Service or the World Wide Web Publishing Service, or a service dependent on them failed to start. The service, or dependent services, may had an error during its startup or may be disabled.

I looked up in the Services MMC and the notice that the IIS Admin Services will fail to be started each time the iisreset is performed. This makes the reason for the FTP 7.0 RC0 to fail to install as at the end of the installation, it will run the iisreset command to restart the services.

I have tried uninstalling the Web Server Roles from the server and reinstall everything and it does not helps with the FTP 7.0 installation. Finally, I have make a clean IIS uninstalaltion by running the following command, which uninstall the Windows Process Activation(WAS). I then re-exceute the Web Server Role installation and this time the FTP 7.0 install without any issues :-)

Start /w pkgmgr /uu:IIS-WebServerRole;WAS-WindowsActivationService