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ethtool 1.6 released

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Subject: ethtool 1.6 released
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 05:38:26 -0400
Organization: MandrakeSoft
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This is a feature release, with no bug fixes since version 1.5. It supports the new features in recent ethtool API changes: control of interrupt coalescing, and many diagnostic/debugging commands.

Download from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gkernel/ethtool-1.6.tar.gz

NEWS file:


Version 1.6 - June 20, 2002

* Feature: Support e1000 register dumps
* Feature: Support RealTek RTL-8139C+ and RTL-8169 register dumps
* Feature: Support coalescing config (ETHTOOL_[GS]COALESCE)
* Feature: Support ring param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]RINGPARAM)
* Feature: Support pause param config (ETHTOOL_[GS]PAUSEPARAM)
* Feature: Support physical NIC identification (ETHTOOL_PHYS_ID)
* Feature: Support NIC self-testing (ETHTOOL_TEST)
* Feature: Support NIC checksum/scatter-gather enable/disable (ETHTOOL_[GS]RXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]TXCSUM, ETHTOOL_[GS]SG)




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