Questions tagged [ethtool]

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Where to find list of possible arguments for ethtool -K?

When I want to disable/enable interface features with the ethtool -K command, how can I list all available options? When I run ethtool -k I see a list of options, but I don't know the equivalent ethtool -K name for each one. My man page shows the…
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Collecting SFP+ attributes in Linux

I need to collect hw component inventory from physical systems running RHEL (6 and 7) and its derivatives. I need to collect the SFP+ attributes along with the rest of the components. I know I can easily get this with ethtool, as long as the…
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Changing network interface speed with ethtool is not working

Im using lenevo M5 server which have Gbps ethernet cards, but strangely when i read cat /sys/class/net/eth3/speed it show 100 similarly when using ethtool it show 100Mbps only.The output of dmesg and ethtool are below. Any idea why is…
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What do the numbers in square brackets of ethtool output mean?

I'm looking at NIC statistics and can't find any info about these numbers: [0],[1]..[7] like here: [root@machine-1 ~]# ethtool -S enp21s0f0 NIC statistics: [0]: rx_bytes: 23048043995115 [0]: rx_ucast_packets: 15462207866 [0]:…
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Unable to set eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full : invalid argument

I use Ubuntu server for my things,but when i config speed 1000 and duplex full the error occur. I've tried the answers from here,does not work, the command i used is ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full Before this happened I changed my network…
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Cannot set 1G speed on 10G nic using ethtool

I have a linux server with 10G fibre nics: xyz@xyz48:~$ sudo ethtool p1p1 Settings for p1p1: Supported ports: [ FIBRE ] Supported link modes: 10000baseT/Full Supported pause frame use: No Supports auto-negotiation: No …
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Disable TCP checksum offloading on KVM virtual network

I have a virtual network for connecting KVM guests with the host. I need to disable TCP checksum offloading on this network. The ethtool works fine but I want to disable it permanently and I could not find anything in virsh or QEMU documentation.…
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How to detect ethernet uplink speed on CentOS 6 OpenVZ VPS

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…
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How to get ethtool wake-on-lan setting to "stick"?

I have a couple of machines in my server room normally powered off which it's useful to be able to power up remotely. One of them is an old dual-P3 IBM serverWorks Intel STL2 machine on which wake-on-LAN has performed flawlessly for years. I hit…
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some nodes in a cluster has higher frame value in ifconfig

I am running a cluster consisting of 22 nodes. (22 nodes under the same 1Gbps switch.) I noticed some nodes in the cluster has higher "frame" value in ifconfig like the following. some nodes (higher frame): eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr…
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What does a high number of rx_crc_errors indicate?

When running ethtool I notice a very high level of rx_crc_errors. When the server is under heavy load the counter goes even higher. What does this typically point to as the source of the problem? Media or cable issues?
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Why NIC ring parameters are not pre-set at their Hardware max capabilities?

Check the NIC ring buffer: # ethtool -g eth0 Ring parameters for eth0: Pre-set maximums: RX: 4096 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 0 TX: 4096 Current hardware settings: RX: 256 RX Mini: 0 RX Jumbo: 0 TX: 256 One…
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When using ethtool -S what is the difference between rx_packets and rx_pkts_nic?

rx_packets are much larger than rx_pkts_nic. Why is this the case? Is there a doc somewhere with explanation of all the NIC stat fields?
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Meaning of rx_fcs_errors

On my server I do see RX frame errors in ifconfig: eth0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 ether d0:50:99:30:f6:81 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 11604295 bytes 3261247616 (3.0 GiB) RX errors 7339…
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how to change the auto-negotiation to yes in linux servers

when I run the ethtool command on eth0 ( on VM machine redhat version 6.7 ) I see Supports auto-negotiation: No can we change this to - auto-negotiation: yes ? , is it configurable? ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] …
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