[CentOS] ethtool

Tue Sep 28 20:16:30 UTC 2010
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> We've just moved one a new server from our sever room, where I built 
> it, to the datacenter. We want to force autoneg off, and tell it 
> gigabit and full duplex. Using ethtool, I get no errors setting the 
> speed or duplex. HOWEVER, autoneg on works... and autoneg off 
> utterly refuses to work, and gives:
>
> ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off
> Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument
>  not setting autoneg

Did you turning off autoneg at the same time you set the speed and 
duplex?

   ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off

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