9 Linux Ethtool Examples To Manipulate Ethernet Card (NIC Card)

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Ethernet Card (NIC Card)
by Balakrishnan Mariyappan on October 28, 2010
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Ethtool utility is used to view and change the ethernet device

parameters.
1. List Ethernet Device Properties
When you execute ethtool command with a device name, it displays the following information about the
ethernet device.
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
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100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: d
Wake-on: d
Link detected: yes
This above ethtool output displays ethernet card properties such as speed, wake on, duplex and the link
detection status. Following are the three types of duplexes available.
Full duplex : Enables sending and receiving of packets at the same time. This mode is used when
the ethernet device is connected to a switch.
Half duplex : Enables either sending or receiving of packets at a single point of time. This mode is
used when the ethernet device is connected to a hub.
Auto-negotiation : If enabled, the ethernet device itself decides whether to use either full duplex or
half duplex based on the network the ethernet device attached to.
2. Change NIC Parameter Using ethtool Option -s autoneg
The above ethtool eth0 output displays that the “Auto-negotiation” parameter is in enabled state. You can
disable this using autoneg option in the ethtool as shown below.
# ifdown eth0
eth0 device: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
eth0 configuration: eth-bus-pci-0000:0b:00.0
# ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
1000baseT/Full
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: Unknown! (65535)
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Auto-negotiation: off
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
Link detected: no
# ifup eth0
After the above change, you could see that the “link detection” value changed to down and auto-
negotiation is in off state.
3. Change the Speed of Ethernet Device
Using ethtool you can change the speed of the ethernet device to work with the certain network devices,
and the newly assign speed value should be within the limited capacity.
# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 autoneg off
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
1000baseT/Full
Speed: Unknown! (65535)
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
Link detected: no
Once you change the speed when the adapter is online, it automatically goes offline, and you need to
bring it back online using ifup command.
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# ifup eth0
eth0 device: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
eth0 configuration: eth-bus-pci-0000:0b:00.0
Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): running
# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
1000baseT/Full
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
Link detected: yes
As shown in the above output, the speed changed from 1000Mb/s to 100Mb/s and auto-negotiation
parameter is unset.
To change the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU), refer to our ifconfig examples article.
4. Display Ethernet Driver Settings
ethtool -i option displays driver version, firmware version and bus details as shown below.
# ethtool -i eth0
driver: bnx2
version: 2.0.1-suse
firmware-version: 1.9.3
bus-info: 0000:04:00.0
5. Display Auto-negotiation, RX and TX of eth0
View the autonegotiation details about the specific ethernet device as shown below.
# ethtool -a eth0
Pause parameters for eth0:
Autonegotiate: on
RX: on
TX: on
6. Display Network Statistics of Specific Ethernet Device
Use ethtool -S option to display the bytes transfered, received, errors, etc, as shown below.
# ethtool -S eth0
NIC statistics:
rx_bytes: 74356477841
rx_error_bytes: 0
tx_bytes: 110725861146
tx_error_bytes: 0
rx_ucast_packets: 104169941
rx_mcast_packets: 138831
rx_bcast_packets: 59543904
tx_ucast_packets: 118118510
tx_mcast_packets: 10137453
tx_bcast_packets: 2221841
tx_mac_errors: 0
tx_carrier_errors: 0
rx_crc_errors: 0
rx_align_errors: 0
tx_single_collisions: 0
tx_multi_collisions: 0
tx_deferred: 0
tx_excess_collisions: 0
tx_late_collisions: 0
tx_total_collisions: 0
rx_fragments: 0
rx_jabbers: 0
rx_undersize_packets: 0
rx_oversize_packets: 0
rx_64_byte_packets: 61154057
rx_65_to_127_byte_packets: 55038726
tx_64_byte_packets: 3633165
tx_65_to_127_byte_packets: 51169838
rx_xon_frames: 0
rx_xoff_frames: 0
tx_xon_frames: 0
tx_xoff_frames: 0
rx_mac_ctrl_frames: 0
rx_filtered_packets: 14596600
rx_discards: 0
rx_fw_discards: 0
7. Troubleshoot the Ethernet Connection Issues
When there is a problem with the network connection, you might want to check (or change) the ethernet
device parameters explained in the above examples, when you see following issues in the output of
ethtool command.
Speed and Duplex value is shown as Unknown

Link detection value is shown as No
Upon successful connection, the three parameters mentioned above gets appropriate values. i.e Speed is
assigned with known value, Duplex become either Full/Half, and the Link detection becomes Yes.
After the above changes, if the Link Detection still says “No”, check whether there are any issues in the
cables that runs from the switch and the system, you might want to dig into that aspect further.
To capture and analyze packets from a specific network interface, use tcpdump utility.
8. Identify Specific Device From Multiple Devices (Blink LED Port of NIC Card)
Let us assume that you have a machine with four ethernet adapters, and you want to identify the physical
port of a particular ethernet card. (For example, eth0).
Use ethtool option -p, which will make the corresponding LED of physical port to blink.
# ethtool -p eth0
9. Make Changes Permanent After Reboot
If you’ve changed any ethernet device parameters using the ethtool, it will all disappear after the next
reboot, unless you do the following.
On ubuntu, you have to modify /etc/network/interfaces file and add all your changes as shown below.
# vim /etc/network/interfaces
post-up ethtool -s eth2 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
The above line should be the last line of the file. This will change speed, duplex and autoneg of eth2
device permanently.
On SUSE, modify the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id file and include a new script using
POST_UP_SCRIPT variable as shown below. Include the below line as the last line in the corresponding
eth1 adpater config file.
# vim /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id
POST_UP_SCRIPT='eth1'
Then, create a new file scripts/eth1 as shown below under /etc/sysconfig/network directory. Make sure
that the script has execute permission and ensure that the ethtool utility is present under /sbin directory.
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network/
# vim scripts/eth1
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/ethtool -s duplex full speed 100 autoneg off
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1 Ritesh Yeole October 28, 2010 at 3:00 am
Its awesome!!!
I have a problem regarding the ethernet card.
Problem: On board ethernet card is not detected on Centos 5 /Fedora 8 sometimes.

It gives the error as elying initialising, eth does not seem to present.
Can you tell me what is the solution on this ?
Thanks,
Ritesh
2 Tapas Mallick October 28, 2010 at 6:58 am
Is it possible to clear the Statistics collected from “ethtool -S ethX” without rebooting the Host ?
3 Kirill October 28, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Change MAC-address http://embedded.seattle.intel-research.net/wiki/index.php?

title=Setting_the_MAC_Address_from_Linux
4 brad October 28, 2010 at 12:46 pm
On SuSE, you can add ethtool commands directly to the “ifcfg-ethX” file.
For example, edit:
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0
and add:
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=’speed 100 duplex full autoneg off’
Usually, the variable exist but is blank:
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=”
bb
5 hulk October 28, 2010 at 5:04 pm
Number 10 should be turning on WOL.
#ethtool eth0 wol g
6 Nux November 1, 2010 at 10:33 pm
“post-up ethtool -s eth2 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off” <- this is incorrect.
AFAIK, autonegotiation is a required part of the standard for GigE 1000 Base-T (or so says the
IEEE standard).
7 sunny November 27, 2010 at 3:50 am
i have a problem in wake on lan . i can`t change the port of the wake on lan so please give me
solution
8 Sergio January 3, 2011 at 7:19 am
I tried out the ‘-p’ option in my laptop (just one Ethernet ) and my system crashed totally but the
LED was blinking after all. I have to try it out on different systems.
Congratulations
9 suryaprathap December 4, 2013 at 6:51 am
Hi Balakrishnan,
what is meant by PHYAD ,MDI-X ,Wake-on :d
10 Sandy6933 October 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm
Thank you!
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Ethtool utility is used to view and change the ethernet device

1. List Ethernet Device Properties

2. Change NIC Parameter Using ethtool Option -s autoneg

# ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off

3. Change the Speed of Ethernet Device

# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 autoneg off

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Checking for network time protocol daemon (NTPD): running

4. Display Ethernet Driver Settings

5. Display Auto-negotiation, RX and TX of eth0

6. Display Network Statistics of Specific Ethernet Device

7. Troubleshoot the Ethernet Connection Issues

Speed and Duplex value is shown as Unknown

9. Make Changes Permanent After Reboot

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{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Ritesh Yeole October 28, 2010 at 3:00 am

I have a problem regarding the ethernet card.

Problem: On board ethernet card is not detected on Centos 5 /Fedora 8 sometimes.

Can you tell me what is the solution on this ?

2 Tapas Mallick October 28, 2010 at 6:58 am

3 Kirill October 28, 2010 at 12:35 pm

Change MAC-address http://embedded.seattle.intel-research.net/wiki/index.php?

4 brad October 28, 2010 at 12:46 pm

5 hulk October 28, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Number 10 should be turning on WOL.

#ethtool eth0 wol g

6 Nux November 1, 2010 at 10:33 pm

7 sunny November 27, 2010 at 3:50 am

8 Sergio January 3, 2011 at 7:19 am

9 suryaprathap December 4, 2013 at 6:51 am

10 Sandy6933 October 21, 2014 at 8:52 pm

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