ethtool not in default system anymore?

[Bill Nottingham]

Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> 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?

The change to drop the required ethtool use in initscripts was in F-13...
it's not something that would be backported to RHEL 5 ever (and almost
certainly won't be backported to RHEL 6.)

Bill