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| -rw-r--r-- | sysconfig.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup | 8 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt index 1df63156..2e498285 100644 --- a/sysconfig.txt +++ b/sysconfig.txt @@ -617,6 +617,13 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ Managed from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipx ARP=yes|no (adds 'arp' flag to ifconfig, for use with the ethertap device) + ETHTOOL_OPTS=... + Any device-specific options supported by ethtool. For example, + if you wanted to force 100Mb full duplex: + ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off" + Note that changing speed or duplex settings almost always + requires disabling autonegotiation with 'autoneg off'. + No longer supported: PROMISC=yes|no (enable or disable promiscuous mode) ALLMULTI=yes|no (enable or disable all-multicast mode) diff --git a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup index 13232704..4aa0b55f 100755 --- a/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup +++ b/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup @@ -236,6 +236,10 @@ if [ -n "${DYNCONFIG}" ]; then exit 1 fi + if [ -n "$ETHTOOL_OPTS" ] ; then + /sbin/ethtool -s ${REALDEVICE} $ETHTOOL_OPTS + fi + # DHCP clients need DNS to be available, and we don't know # what DNS server they're using until they are done. FWHACK= @@ -286,6 +290,10 @@ else exit 1 fi + if [ -n "$ETHTOOL_OPTS" ] ; then + /sbin/ethtool -s ${REALDEVICE} $ETHTOOL_OPTS + fi + if ! arping -q -c 2 -w 3 -D -I ${REALDEVICE} ${IPADDR} ; then echo $"Error, some other host already uses address ${IPADDR}." exit 1 |