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How do I verify the speed of my NIC?

I just installed a new gigabit network interface card (NIC) in Linux. How do I tell if it is really set to gigabit speeds? I see ethtool has an option to set the speed, but I can't seem to figure ...
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How to persist ethtool settings through reboot

I would like to turn off tcp segmentation offload on a CentOS5 server. Using ethtool the command is ethtool -K eth0 tso off However, this setting only persists for this session. How can I make it ...
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Why is ethtool not showing me all the properties for a NIC?

CentOS 5.8 | VMWare ESX 5.1 When I run ethtool eth0 I see the following: [root@foo ~]# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes Is ...
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meaning of rx_queue_*_csum_err and rx_fifo_errors

I am trying to debug some networking issue with one server. I monitor this machine with multiple monitors and I see that at times ping error rate jumps to 5/10% I am running on ubuntu and I see that ...
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debian set eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full: Invalid argument

I use debian for my things,but when i config speed 1000 and duplex full the error occur the exactly command i use: ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 1000 duplex full Cannot set new settings: ...
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changing network speed to 1000Mb/s

I am trying to change the server uplink from 100Mb/s to 1000Mb/s ethtool eth0 output # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: ...
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