network speed settings

[Ed Wilts]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 10:04:51AM +0100, Dominik Schmid wrote:
> How can I set the network speed of the devices automatically to a specific
> speed on startup? It needs to be loaded on network restart.
> 
> In the past we put some lines to rc.local which sets the speeds with
> mii-tool, but that is not going to load on network restart.
> 
> Is there an option in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX which i
> didn't see?

Yup.  Set ETHTOOL_OPTS to a string containing the network settings you
want.  Anything in there will be passed directly to ethtool with a -s by
ifup so man ethtool will tell you what you can set.

        .../Ed
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