{"id":342,"date":"2009-11-22T03:04:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T07:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2013-05-07T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T09:06:22","slug":"how-to-change-port-speed-or-network-interface-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/how-to-change-port-speed-or-network-interface-speed","title":{"rendered":"Howto: change Port OR Network Interface Speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>How to change Port speed OR Network Interface Speed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To set a specific speed limit on a Network Interface say 10mbps, edit the file network interface file and set the limit which will make the changes permanent even after a reboot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edit the file:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">root@server [~]# pico \/etc\/sysconfig\/network-scripts\/ifcfg-eth0<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Add the following line at the end of the file:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ETHTOOL_OPTS=\u201dspeed 10 duplex full autoneg off\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Save the file and restart the network service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>root@server [~]# service network restart<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This way you can set the duplex or auto negotiation as well. Once done, you can <strong>check the network speed using the ethtool command<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>root@server [~]# ethtool eth0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to change Port speed OR Network Interface Speed?<br \/>\nTo set a specific speed limit on a Network Interface say 10mbps, edit the file network interface file and set the limit which will make the changes permanent even after a reboot.<br \/>\nEdit the file:<br \/>\nroot@server [~]# pico \/etc\/sysconfig\/network-scripts\/ifcfg-eth0<br \/>\nAdd the following line at the end of the file:<br \/>\nETHTOOL_OPTS=\u201dspeed 10 duplex full autoneg off\u201d<br \/>\nSave the file and restart the network service.<br \/>\nroot@server [~]# service network restart<br \/>\nThis way you can set the duplex or auto negotiation as well. Once done, you can check the network [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[434,432,428,427,433,430,429,431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}