Re: ethtool not in default system anymore?

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On 10/12/2010 07:37 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Chris Adams<cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>> I noticed that ethtool is not in the default install anymore (probably
>> for a release or so, but I didn't notice it until now).  Why is that?
>> It is the only tool that can show and configure a variety of network
>> device options, such as speed/duplex negotiation, wake-on-LAN, and TCP
>> offloading.  There is support in the ifcfg-eth* files for calling it as
>> part of interface setup (don't know if that's carried forward to NM,
>> should be considered a bug in NM if not).
>
> mii-tool.

mii-tool has been deprecated for ages.  ethtool has a higher likelihood 
of working on modern NICs.

	Jeff


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