Not able to setup a Intel X520-SR2 10Gb NIC for a Simplex Connection and not able to disable Autoneg OFF

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Issue

  • The Intel X520-SR2 adapters upon examiniation of this adapater via "ethtool" auto negotiation is turned on. Further when attempting to use "ethtool" to turn off auto negotiation it throws error messages stating that this is not a supported option.

  • Is this driver faulty ?

  • Is there another way to achieve a simplex connection using this card ?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
  • Intel X520-SR2 adapters

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