RHEL Virtual machine running on VMware is not showing 1000 MBPS as 'Supported link modes'

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Issue

RHEL Virtual machine running on VMware is not showing 1000 MBPS as 'Supported link modes'.

# ethtool eth0 
Settings for eth0: 
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ] 
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes 
        Advertised link modes:  Not reported 
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No 
        Speed: 10Mb/s 
        Duplex: Half 
        Port: MII 
        PHYAD: 0 
        Transceiver: internal 
        Auto-negotiation: off 
        Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) 
        Link detected: no 

# ethtool eth1 
Settings for eth1: 
        Supported ports: [ TP MII ] 
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes 
        Advertised link modes:  Not reported 
        Advertised auto-negotiation: No 
        Speed: 10Mb/s 
        Duplex: Half 
        Port: MII 
        PHYAD: 0 
        Transceiver: internal 
        Auto-negotiation: off 
        Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) 
        Link detected: no

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3

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