Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2015:1306 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHEA-2015:1306 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

ethtool enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

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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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
s390x
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 6f62514f4639282c48432ef15cb1451938210bf8b8fd9542bb169522f34ccead
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 5218a58f65dd7e8aa4a465325420f84b9df800038741cedb2297b3984f3f4fbb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
ppc64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: f00673581ebc8f97e983d5812fa808e4b90cab2fd1cf40f8d8dd13b808ff704b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 807335c1491568ace24281c3d779236252450c25e0e834d582757aa3ffcfab0f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
s390x
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 6f62514f4639282c48432ef15cb1451938210bf8b8fd9542bb169522f34ccead
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 5218a58f65dd7e8aa4a465325420f84b9df800038741cedb2297b3984f3f4fbb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
x86_64
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cb149519603210932d3dcd846cfcbebd4c7236f2c50095a15654b5fe9ed14b9b
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 1dfa5d893f277b78e1122b760968377661704951568af6bf92568df64d7febc7
i386
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: f9418b9600ac493d5ae106c84a47befad7b18c66d1953446a21f53b4224028cd
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 1a06d8f5e0e6b02b55c5caae126ff767510707f372ba816c5d7c245467d0cd09

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 2c9ce08823d6c3ff30f4cdc14e4d41cf740e6050733fbc184a3d9a543a40b6b0
s390x
ethtool-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 6f62514f4639282c48432ef15cb1451938210bf8b8fd9542bb169522f34ccead
ethtool-debuginfo-3.5-6.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 5218a58f65dd7e8aa4a465325420f84b9df800038741cedb2297b3984f3f4fbb

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