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I recently purchased a VPS which was advertised as a 100Mbps uplink but the promotion promised a free upgrade to a 1Gbps uplink. I'm trying to find out if I received the upgrade with various methods without any luck.

Running lspci I get:

[root@host ~]# lspci
pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci
lspci: Cannot find any working access method.
[root@host ~]#

Similarly, running lshw and ethtool does not show any network information either.

ifconfig -a shows:

[root@host /]# ifconfig -a
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:97474 (95.1 KiB)  TX bytes:97474 (95.1 KiB)

venet0    Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  P-t-P:127.0.0.1  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:256143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:177324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:280427908 (267.4 MiB)  TX bytes:76882233 (73.3 MiB)

venet0:0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:198.xx.xxx.xx  P-t-P:198.xx.xxx.xx  Bcast:198.xx.xxx.xx  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1500  Metric:1
[root@host /]#

Perhaps this server doesn't have PCI, if that is the case is there any other way to find out the uplink speed?

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  • What type of virtualization is in use? Dec 24, 2013 at 3:32
  • @MichaelHampton OpenVZ
    – SSpoke
    Dec 24, 2013 at 3:42
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    That explains your problem. (And every other problem you're going to have in future...) Dec 24, 2013 at 3:54
  • @MichaelHampton There's nothing wrong with OpenVZ, it's actually better then Virtuozzo from HostGator. They charged me $20.00 a month for 300mb of ram and 677mhz cpu and took a good minute to shutdown. OpenVZ reboots in under 2 seconds, can't beat that quality.
    – SSpoke
    Dec 24, 2013 at 3:57
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    Virtuozzo and OpenVZ are practically identical. The cost of one provider or another has nothing to do with it. Dec 24, 2013 at 3:59

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I found out a way to test whether you are on a 100mbps or 1gbps uplink, you download this python script for running a speed test with speedtest.net

wget -O speedtest-cli.py https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/raw/master/speedtest_cli.py

Then once you have the script you do:

python speedtest-cli.py --share

Here is my result:

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Which proves my workstation is on a full-dulpex transmission 1 gigabit per second uplink

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Use ethtool with an argument for the interface e.g. ethtool eth0.

Dmesg may have other useful information but it is transient.

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  • Sending ethtool eth0 just breaks to a new line without any output. ifconfig -a shows: lo, venet0, venet0:0 and doing ethtool venet0, etc. yields the same result.
    – SSpoke
    Dec 24, 2013 at 3:34

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