ethtool

Release Notes: Build fix for distributions with kernel headers from Linux 2.6.9 or earlier.

Release Notes: RX n-tuple masks and documentation were fixed. Ethernet-level RX n-tuple filtering and the "clear" action were added. Support for stmmac register dump was added. The permanent address can be gotten with the -P option. A VLAN acceleration control feature was implemented.

Release Notes: This release fixes handling of statistics where the label is exactly 32 bytes. It adds the ability to change the advertised speed/duplex to a different range of values, rather than all-or-one. It adds/updates register dump support for ixgb, sky2, Fabric7 VIOC, e1000, r8169, and SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x. It adds the ability to decode raw register dump stored in a file. It adds the ability to force hex register dump. Additional 10Gbps support is included. 2.5G support is included. The internal ethtool.h has been synchronized with upstream kernel 2.6.23-rc1.

Release Notes: r8159 register dump support was added along with support for advertising gigabit Ethernet. 10baseT-HD is now advertised properly. Other minor bugfixes were made.

Release Notes: If your Linux kernel network driver supports it, this new release of ethtool adds support for e1000 register dumps, RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps, rx/tx coalescing config, rx/tx ring param config, rx/tx pause param config, physical NIC identification, NIC self-testing, and NIC checksum/scatter-gather configuration.