[systemd-devel] RFC: support ethtool pause setting in systemd.link

[Lennart Poettering]

On Do, 17.10.19 10:23, Stephen Hemminger (stephen at networkplumber.org) wrote:

> Ethernet flow control (pause) is a setting which often is best disabled.
> Systemd has nice way to configure other link settings like WoL, TSO, etc
> but doesn't have a way to configure pause.
>
> It would be good to have something like:
>
> [Match]
> Driver=ixgbe
>
> [Link]
> Pause=off
>
>
> Possible values should subset of ethtool.
> "off" = autoneg off, rx off, tx off
> "autoneg" = autoneg on
> "tx" = autoneg off, rx off, tx on
> "rx" = autoneg off, rx on, tx off

Makes sense, but could you please file this as RFE issue on systemd
github?

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md

Maybe cc @ssahani and @yuwata on it, they tend to be particularly
interested in the networking side of things!

Thank you,

Lennart

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