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duplex settings

Folks, I am trying to set the speed and duplex settings of my ESX 3.5.

However, after I changed the speed using ethtool, the network link goes down and now I am not able to bring it back.

I tried the running the following commands

ethtool -s vmnic0 speed 1000 duplex full

How do i change the speed duplex setting for the Service Console of ESX 3.5?

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Texiwill
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Hello,

ethtool is provided however it really should not be used. You should instead use esxcfg-nics.

esxcfg-nics -s 1000 -d full vmnic0


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Edward L. Haletky

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354, As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
vSphere Upgrade Saga: https://www.astroarch.com/blogs
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Texiwill

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Texiwill
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Hello,

ethtool is provided however it really should not be used. You should instead use esxcfg-nics.

esxcfg-nics -s 1000 -d full vmnic0


Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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Author of the book 'VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers', Copyright 2008 Pearson Education. CIO Virtualization Blog: http://www.cio.com/blog/index/topic/168354, As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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Edward L. Haletky
vExpert XIV: 2009-2023,
VMTN Community Moderator
vSphere Upgrade Saga: https://www.astroarch.com/blogs
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Texiwill
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