How To Configure Ethernet Card into 1000Mb/s Speed on Linux?

Posted on February 8, 2007

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Use ethtool - Display or change [tag]ethernet[/tag] card settings. ethtool is used for querying settings of an ethernet device and changing them.

To set the interface speed, duplex or auto negotiation on Linux system:

# ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off
-s     option allows changing some or all settings of the
        specified ethernet device. All following options only
        apply if -s was specified.

       speed 10|100|1000
           Set speed in Mb/s. ethtool with single argument
           will show you the supported device speeds.

       duplex half|full
           Set full or half duplex mode.

       port tp|aui|bnc|mii
           Select device port.

       autoneg on|off
           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.

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