What is "Requested FEC: RS-FEC, Negotiated FEC: NONE, Autoneg Advertised: On, Autoneg Negotiated: False, Flow Control: None" means?

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Issue

  • After the reboot, the NIC failed to come up, and the following message keeps appearing repeatedly.
kernel: ice 0000:c8:00.1 ensXXX: NIC Link is up 10 Gbps Full Duplex, Requested FEC: RS-FEC, Negotiated FEC: NONE, Autoneg Advertised: On, Autoneg Negotiated: False, Flow Control: None

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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