How to make NIC ethtool settings persistent (apply automatically at boot)
Issue
- Need to make a setting change with ethtool always apply at boot time or when the network interface is brought up.
- Need to set NIC ring buffer size permanently.
- Want to have a NIC offloading feature such as TSO, GSO, LRO, or GRO, etc, enabled or disabled all the time.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- ethtool
- initscripts
- NetworkManager
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