Article ID: 000058431 Content Type: Install & Setup Last Reviewed: 10/04/2022

How to Limit the Link Speed of an Intel® Ethernet Speed to Gigabit on Linux*

Environment

Other Linux family*, Red Hat Linux family*

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Summary

Manually Setting the Link speed of an Intel adapter to gigabit of a network adapter on Linux*

Description

Unable to limit the Link speed of the network adapter to gigabit without disabling Auto-negotiation.

Resolution

Its possible to set the link speed to gigabit without disabling the auto-negotiation by running the following command with root permissions:

  • ethtool -s [interface's name] speed 1000 duplex full autoneg on

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