Thursday, December 10, 2009

Using ethtool to check and change Ethernet Card Settings

ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them. ethtool is the replacement tool for mii-tool



# ethtool eth0
 As seen in the above diagram, ethtool information is very informative and helpful for diagnostic

Other useful  command includes
# ethtool -i eth0 (provide information regarding eth0 including drivers)
# ethtool -S eth0 (provide information regarding the speed and other information)


Taken from ethtool from softpanorama. You can use ethtool command to set specific parameter on the NIC
# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

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