[system-administrators-guide] ethtool | -K, --features, --offload adding option to Ethtool

stephenw stephenw at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 26 11:38:40 UTC 2013


commit a438c322efe08ea4e663740b767300a3ead4c68e
Author: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Jul 26 13:32:42 2013 +0200

    ethtool | -K, --features, --offload
    adding option to Ethtool

 en-US/Network_Interfaces.xml |   34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/Network_Interfaces.xml b/en-US/Network_Interfaces.xml
index 3059b63..02516c6 100644
--- a/en-US/Network_Interfaces.xml
+++ b/en-US/Network_Interfaces.xml
@@ -917,8 +917,40 @@ The <option>-k</option>, <option>--show-features</option>, or <option>--show-off
           <para>
            To make these settings permanent you can make use of the <option>ETHTOOL_OPTS</option> directive. It can be used in interface configuration files to set the desired options when the network interface is brought up. Refer to <xref linkend="s2-networkscripts-interfaces-eth0"/> for more details on how to use this directive.
            </para>
+           <variablelist>
 
-<variablelist>
+              <varlistentry>
+ <term>
+            <indexterm>
+              <primary>
+                <application>Ethtool</application>
+              </primary>
+              <secondary>option</secondary>
+              <tertiary>
+                <option>--features</option>
+              </tertiary>
+            </indexterm>
+            <option>--offload</option>
+          </term>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+            The <option>-K</option>, <option>--features</option>, or <option>--offload</option> option changes the offload parameters and other features of the specified network device. It takes the following form:
+           </para>
+           <screen>
+<option>-K, --features, --offload</option> <replaceable>devname</replaceable> <replaceable>feature</replaceable> <replaceable>boolean</replaceable></screen>
+            <para>
+              where <replaceable>feature</replaceable> is a built-in or kernel supplied feature,
+            </para>
+            <para>
+              <replaceable>boolean</replaceable> is one of <literal>ON</literal> or <literal>OFF</literal>,
+            </para>
+              <para> and <replaceable>devname</replaceable> is your NIC.</para>
+              <para>
+                The <filename>ethtool(8)</filename> man page lists most features. As the feature set is dependent on the NIC driver, you should consult the driver documentation for features not listed in the man page.
+              </para>
+
+                           </listitem>
+                           </varlistentry>
 
  <varlistentry>
  <term>


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