ethtool not in default system anymore?

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 23:37:37 UTC 2010


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
> I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore (probably
> for a release or so, but I didn't notice it until now).  Why is that?
> It is the only tool that can show and configure a variety of network
> device options, such as speed/duplex negotiation, wake-on-LAN, and TCP
> offloading.  There is support in the ifcfg-eth* files for calling it as
> part of interface setup (don't know if that's carried forward to NM,
> should be considered a bug in NM if not).

mii-tool.


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