Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHEA-2015:1306 - ethtool enhancement update

Synopsis

ethtool enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated ethtool packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The ethtool packages provide the ethtool utility that enables querying and changing settings such as speed, port, autonegotiation, PCI locations, and checksum offload on many network devices, especially of Ethernet devices.

This update adds the following enhancement:

  • This update enables the ethtool utility to accept a user-defined Receive-Side Scaling (RSS) hash key value for the Ethernet driver, which improves the performance and security of RSS. As a result, the user can set the RSS hash key value for the Ethernet driver with ethtool. (BZ#1066605)

Users of ethtool are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm
  • ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • ethtool-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • ethtool-3.5-6.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

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References

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Additional information