Bug 142172

Summary: ETHTOOL_OPTS works in DL-360-G4 (tg3), but in DL-380-G4 (tg3) does not work.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mauricio Cavalcanti <mauriciopcavalcanti>
Component: kernelAssignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Mauricio Cavalcanti 2004-12-07 20:30:32 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have many DL-360-G4 using ETHTOOL_OPTS in ifcfg-eth0, forcing 100 
Mbps, full duplex and autoneg off, but when I put the same 
ETHTOOL_OPTS in DL-380-G4 (tg3), I have 100 Mbps, half duplex and 
autoneg off. It seems it´s not reading ETHTOOL_OPTS.

In DL-380-G4, when i run "ifcfg eth0 down", ethtool command shows me 
100Mbps... if NIC is down and "ifconfig" command don´t show me any 
about eth0 (only "lo"), how it "ethtool" command shows me 100Mbps and 
more? In DL-360-G4, it works fine.

I put ethtool comand in rc.local as workaround, and it´s working as I 
want (100 Mbps, full duplex and autoneg off).

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set ETHTOOL_OPTS in ifcfg-eth0 with speed 100 duplex full autoneg 
off;
2.reboot or network restart;
3.run "ethtool eth0"... the answer is "speed 100 duplex half autoneg 
off", not full duplex;
4.if I run or put "ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off" 
in rc.local, it works fine.
    

Actual Results:  run "ethtool eth0" and the answer is "speed 100 
duplex half autoneg off", not full duplex, even when eth0 is down !

Expected Results:  ETHTOOL_OPTS must work if I put in ifcfg-eth0 and 
ethtool cannot answer "speed 100 duplex half autoneg off" if NIC eth0 
is down.

Additional info:

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-02-18 21:44:09 UTC
Are you using the exact same network config in both cases?

Comment 3 Mauricio Cavalcanti 2005-02-21 11:21:14 UTC
Yes.

Comment 5 Prarit Bhargava 2007-09-12 17:55:54 UTC
Mauricio, is this still an issue?

P.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-19 19:11:58 UTC
This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase.
During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission
critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since
this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed.
 
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