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ETHTOOL

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: August 2001
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NAME

ethtool - Display or change ethernet card settings  

SYNOPSIS

ethtool ethX

ethtool -i ethX

ethtool -h

ethtool -s ethX [ speed { 10,100,1000 } ] [ duplex { half,full } ] [ port { tp,aui,mii,fibre } ] [ autoneg { on,off } ] [ phyad N ] [ xcvr { internal,external } ] [ wol [ pumbagsd ]+ ] [ sopass X:X:X:X:X:X ]  

DESCRIPTION

ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them.

ethX is the name of the ethernet device to work on.

 

OPTIONS

ethtool with a single argument specifying the device name prints current setting of the specified device.
-i
queries the specified ethernet device for associated driver information.
-h
shows a short help message.
-s
option allows changing some or all settings of the specified ethernet device. All following options only apply if -s was specified.
speed
Set speed in Mb/s. ethtool with single argument will show you the supported device speeds.
duplex
Set full or half duplex mode.
port
Select device port.
autoneg
Specify if autonegotiation is enabled. In the usual case it is, but might cause some problems with some network devices, so you can turn it off.
phyad
Physical address. Not used yet.
xcvr
Select transceiver type. Currently only internal and external can be specified, in the future further types might be added.
wol
Set Wake-on-LAN options. Not all devices support this. The argument to this option is a string of characters specifying which options to enable.
p
Wake on phy activity
u
Wake on unicast messages
m
Wake on multicast messages
b
Wake on broadcast messages
a
Wake on ARP
g
Wake on MagicPacket(tm)
s
Enable SecureOn(tm) password for MagicPacket(tm)
d
Disable (wake on nothing). This option clears all previous options.
sopass
Set the SecureOn(tm) password. The argument to this option must be 6 bytes in ethernet MAC hex format (xx:yy:zz:aa:bb:cc).
 

BUGS

Not supported (in part or whole) on all ethernet drivers (read /usr/share/doc/ethtool/README.debian to get an idea about supported features). Only supported on 2.4 kernel and Sparc running 2.2 kernel with Happy Meal ethernet card.  

AUTHOR

ethtool was written by David Miller <davem@redhat.com>.

Modifications by Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>.

Manual page written by Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>.  

AVAILABILITY

ethtool is available on SourceForge in gkernel project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/).


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
BUGS
AUTHOR
AVAILABILITY

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