ethtool not in default system anymore?

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > It looks like up through F12, initscripts required ethtool (so it was
> > > definately installed by default).  I see this in the RPM changelog:
> > Still the case in RHEL5, FWIW.
> I'm assuming you mean RHEL 6; it just seemed too big of a change to debut
> in RHEL at the time we branched.  However, it has worked pretty well in
> Fedora so far to just rely on the carrier attribute in sysfs.

No, I mean in current RHEL5, ethtool is required by initscripts. Maybe that
happened somewhere in one of the point releases?

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences