Bug 224122 - netowrk speed not set up according to manual settings
Summary: netowrk speed not set up according to manual settings
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-01-24 08:49 UTC by LENHOF
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-12-08 21:31:37 UTC
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Description LENHOF 2007-01-24 08:49:16 UTC
Description of problem:

Network Speed is not set up according to the option ETHTOOL_OPTS in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethxxx

I've managed to make it work by adding a sleep before this option is applied in
the ifup script... Perhaps a little better mean is to move the 

[ -n "${LINKDELAY}" ] && /bin/sleep ${LINKDELAY} 

line before 

if [ -n "$ETHTOOL_OPTS" ] ; then
        /sbin/ethtool -s ${REALDEVICE} $ETHTOOL_OPTS
    fi

and add an information in the documentation to specify that if the speed is not
set up according to the speed specified, a recommandation is to add a LINK_DELAY
option...

I think that for some network cards, the link is not set up quickly, so when the
speed is set up by ethtool, the network card is not completely up... And when it
is up, the speed is overrided by default settings


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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2007-01-24 19:13:29 UTC
What options are you using?

Comment 2 LENHOF 2007-01-25 06:18:06 UTC
ETHTOOL_OPTS="speed 100 duplex full autoneg off"

Regards,

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2007-01-25 15:30:16 UTC
CC'ing ethtool maintainer - I don't see why the effect would change with or
without a sleep.

Comment 4 LENHOF 2008-02-29 20:17:28 UTC
The problem could be solved by setting the port to "PortFast" on the cisco
switch, I can not verify it right now. I think it could be on an FAQ somewhere...

Comment 5 Bill Nottingham 2008-12-08 21:31:37 UTC
Given that this appears to be a switch issue, closing as not an initscripts bug.


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