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| author | Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net> | 2021-10-26 03:24:48 +0300 |
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| committer | Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com> | 2021-12-15 22:09:29 +0300 |
| commit | 271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe (patch) | |
| tree | aff28c175bb0057f19bcd796bdb3e948dc86f720 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0182d1f3fa640888a2ed7e3f6df2fdb10adee7c8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-271225fd57c2f1e0b3f8826df51be6c634affefe.tar.xz | |
ixgbe: Document how to enable NBASE-T support
Commit a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0
Gbps support") introduced suppression of the advertisement of NBASE-T
speeds by default, according to Todd Fujinaka to accommodate customers
with network switches which could not cope with advertised NBASE-T
speeds, as posted in the E1000-devel mailing list:
https://sourceforge.net/p/e1000/mailman/message/37106269/
However, the suppression was not documented at all, nor was how to
enable NBASE-T support.
Properly document the NBASE-T suppression and how to enable NBASE-T
support.
Fixes: a296d665eae1 ("ixgbe: Add ethtool support to enable 2.5 and 5.0 Gbps support")
Reported-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Robert Schlabbach <robert_s@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst index f1d5233e5e51..0a233b17c664 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/device_drivers/ethernet/intel/ixgbe.rst @@ -440,6 +440,22 @@ NOTE: For 82599-based network connections, if you are enabling jumbo frames in a virtual function (VF), jumbo frames must first be enabled in the physical function (PF). The VF MTU setting cannot be larger than the PF MTU. +NBASE-T Support +--------------- +The ixgbe driver supports NBASE-T on some devices. However, the advertisement +of NBASE-T speeds is suppressed by default, to accommodate broken network +switches which cannot cope with advertised NBASE-T speeds. Use the ethtool +command to enable advertising NBASE-T speeds on devices which support it:: + + ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 + +On Linux systems with INTERFACES(5), this can be specified as a pre-up command +in /etc/network/interfaces so that the interface is always brought up with +NBASE-T support, e.g.:: + + iface eth? inet dhcp + pre-up ethtool -s eth? advertise 0x1800000001028 || true + Generic Receive Offload, aka GRO -------------------------------- The driver supports the in-kernel software implementation of GRO. GRO has |